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

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

between 1863 and 1877

- 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).

Albumen silver print

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

PH1987:0445

• partial view
• exterior view

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]

Nikko; Japan;

• architecture

• complex
• temple
• mausoleum
• lanterns (lighting devices)
• torii