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Here we have an unidentified portrait of a Japanese Christian family. We know very little about Christianity in Japan at this time such as regional or social-clss conventions. This was reportedly a Christmas portrait. Could that be a Christmas tree in the upper right hand corner of the portrait. The family is all dressed in traditional clothing except the father. He seems to be wearing clerical garb. All we know for sure is that he certainly was not Catholic. We know very little about traditional clothing at this time. The traditonal clothing makes it impossible to estimate the date of the photograph. It looks, however, to us like an old photograph. We would giess that it was taken about 1900. We believe that the convention of dressing in traditional clothing for portraits continued for many years, although it became less common after World War II. Note the boys have cropped hair.
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