English: Portrait of Empress Consort Haruko (posthumously known as Empress Shoken, consort of Meiji, Emperor of Japan, 1872.
Uchida Kuichi was the only photographer granted a sitting by the Emperor Meiji and in 1872 Uchida photographed the Emperor and Empress Haruko in full court dress and everyday robes (Kinoshita; Ishii and Iizawa).
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Portrait of Empress Consort Haruko (posthumously known as Empress Shoken, consort of Meiji, Emperor of Japan), taken by Uchida Kuichi, 1872. Source: [http://www.clevelandart.org/exhibcef/japhoto/illusmag/2003jp-0024.jpg The Cleveland Museum of Art] Kuic