Partial view of the Toshogu Mausoleum complex showing the Guardhouse, the Washbasin Shed, the Sutra Repository, a torii, and other structures, Nikko, Japan

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)
Munehiro Kora (role unspecified)
Iemitsu Tokugawa (role unspecified)

Title:

Partial view of the Toshogu Mausoleum complex showing the Guardhouse, the Washbasin Shed, the Sutra Repository, a torii, and other structures, Nikko, Japan

Date:

between 1863 and 1877

Description:

- The structures visible in this photograph are the Guardhouse (at left), the Washbasin Shed, the Sutra Repository and a torii (at centre), Honchi-do, the Drum House, the Bronze Lantern and the Upper Treasury (at right) (Okawa, pp. 62-66; Ota, p. 74, fig. 176).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 23.7 x 28.5 cm secondary support: 34.4 x 50.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1987:0445

Point of View:

partial view
exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: "Temples at" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, on the secondary support, l.c.: "Nikko" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.r.: "450" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.r.: "600" [partially erased]

Location:

Nikko; Japan;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

complex
temple
mausoleum
lanterns (lighting devices)
torii

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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