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Book of exterior views of Edojo [Edo Castle] showing watchtowers, gateway complexes, buildings, defensive walls, moats, a garden, grounds and other structures, Tokyo, Japan
People:
  • Matsusaburo Yokoyama (photographer)
  • Noritane Ninagawa (author)
  • Takatora Todo (role unspecified)
  • Ieyasu Tokugawa (role unspecified)
  • Yukinaga Asano (role unspecified)
Title:

Book of exterior views of Edojo [Edo Castle] showing watchtowers, gateway complexes, buildings, defensive walls, moats, a garden, grounds and other structures, Tokyo, Japan

Date:

between 1871 and 1872

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

Albumen silver prints

Dimensions:

album (closed): 27 x 39 x 0,7 cm comps. (range): 5,6 to 5,9 x 8,6 to 9 cm secondary supports: 26 x 38,8 cm

Reference number:

PH1987:0196:001-073

Point of View:
  • partial view
  • exterior views
Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Contemporary binding consists of blue paper covers with black ink lettering on white paper labels. The covers and pages are bound at the right edge with a white cord, which has become detached. The book comprises 73 albumen silver prints mounted on 9 pinkish white wove paper pages, two plan views of Edo Castle printed in black ink on white paper labels that are attached to 2 pinkish white wove paper pages, and text in Japanese characters inscribed in black ink on the yellowish white wove title page, and text in Japanese characters printed in black ink on 6 yellowish white wove pages. The title page includes a chop in red ink.

Inscription:

labelled, imprinted and dated - in black ink, on a white paper label attached to the front cover, u.c. to l.c.: "Kwan ko dzu setsu [sic] / Notice / historique et descriptive / sur / les arts et industries japonais / par / Ninagawa Noritané / (première partie, chateau [sic]) / Tokio / 11e année de Meidji [sic] / (1878)" labelled and imprinted and dated - in black ink, on two white paper labels attached to the front cover, u.l. to l.l.; and u.r. to l.r.: with text in Japanese characters imprinted - in black ink, on the inside of the back cover, l.l., l.c., l.r.: with three cartouches framing text in Japanese characters

Location:

Tokyo; Japan;

Subject:
  • architecture
  • landscape architecture
  • engineering
  • military
Subject Descriptive Terms:
  • garden
  • trees
  • fences
  • people
  • stairs
  • gateways
  • walkway
  • doorways
  • walls
  • railings
  • footbridge
  • bases (object components)
  • stone walls
  • carts
  • bridges (built works)
  • buildings
  • men (male humans)
  • watchtowers
  • posts
  • tiled roofs
  • castle
  • moats
  • stonework
  • pond
  • building stone
  • camera
  • child
  • grounds
  • ramp
  • roads
  • roofing tile
  • sheds
  • stone lantern (lighting device)
  • tract (land area)
  • vegetation
  • boats
  • water wells
  • defensive walls
  • embankments
  • guardhouses
  • weirs
  • buttresses
Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
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