Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Reading sentence to commit hari-kiri.
Call Number
D North 57/GC131/Box 39/Normal/19th c./Unidentified Artists/Japan, Meiji Period GA 2010.02281
Identifier
ark:/88435/dckw52jn671
Date Created
1860
Extent
1 item ; print 21.3 x 26 cm. sheet 28 x 35.4 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Unidentified Artist [photographer]
Medium: Albumen prints
Depiction: Japanese man in white robe kneels before man who stands to reads sentence and seated executioner.
Inscribed in pencil, verso: "Reading sentence to commit hari-kiri".
Numbered in negative, lower right: "133".
Unsigned.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/13ec8818-fef6-4000-9359-4a6ee49d9279/manifest