Interior view of the sliding doors leading to the Second Room of the Shokintei, Katsura Rikyu (also known as Katsura Imperial Villa), Kyoto, Japan

People:

Yasuhiro Ishimoto (photographer)
Toshihito, Prince, grandson of Ogimachi, Emperor of Japan (role unspecified)
Toshitada, Prince, great-grandson of Ogimachi, Emperor of Japan (role unspecified)

Title:

Interior view of the sliding doors leading to the Second Room of the Shokintei, 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).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.6 x 21.9 cm secondary support: 35.5 x 28.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0242

Point of View:

interior view

Inscription:

signed - by the photographer, in graphite, on the secondary support, c.r.: "Yas Ishimoto" [below the l.r. corner of the image] stamped - blind embossed, on the secondary support, l.r.: "FAVOR - RUHL CO./ WABASH / KID FINISH"; [in an oval; upside-down] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, l.r.: "121"

Location:

Kyoto; Japan;

Subject:

architecture
interior design

Subject Descriptive Terms:

sliding doors
palace
villa
fusuma
transom (opening component)
teahouse

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

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