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View of the Moon-viewing Platform, the pond and the garden, Katsura Rikyu (also known as Katsura Imperial Villa), Kyoto, Japan
View of the Moon-viewing Platform, the pond and the garden, Katsura Rikyu (also known as Katsura Imperial Villa), Kyoto, Japan
People:
  • Yasuhiro Ishimoto (photographer)
  • Toshitada, Prince, great-grandson of Ogimachi, Emperor of Japan (role unspecified)
  • Toshihito, Prince, grandson of Ogimachi, Emperor of Japan (role unspecified)
Title:

View of the Moon-viewing Platform, the pond and the garden, Katsura Rikyu (also known as Katsura Imperial Villa), Kyoto, Japan

Date:

1953

Description:

- Photographs PH1986:0148 - PH1986:0283 form a sequence of views. Accession numbers follow an order established by the photographer that is based on the temporal experience of walking through the grounds of Katsura Rikyu (also known as Katsura Imperial Villa) (see acquisition file).
- Yasuhiro Ishimoto returned to Katsura Rikyu (also known as Katsura Imperial Villa) in 1982 and took another series of photographs, this time with many in colour, often using the same or very similar views to those of his 1953 photographs at the same location (Ishimoto, p. 266).
- In front of the bamboo Moon-viewing Platform is a portion of the wooden broad veranda of the Old Shoin (Ito, 42, 79-80).

Form:
photographs
Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)
Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.5 x 23.8 cm secondary support: 35.5 x 28.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0198

Point of View:
  • exterior view
Inscription:

signed - by the photographer, in graphite, on the secondary support, c.r.: "Yas Ishimoto" [below the l.r. corner of the image] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, l.r.: "55 / 19- 2 [partially erased] / 14- 3 [partially erased]" inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, t.: "P 113"

Location:

Kyoto; Japan;

Subject:
  • architecture
  • landscape architecture
Subject Descriptive Terms:
  • garden
  • trees
  • palace
  • porch
  • veranda
  • wood (plant material)
  • pond
  • stone lantern (lighting device)
  • bamboo
  • villa
Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Copyright:

© Kochi Prefecture

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