Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Small building which contains the armor of Iyeyasu].
Call Number
D North 57/GC131/Box 39/Normal/19th c./Unidentified Artists/Japan, Meiji Period GA 2010.02294
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc1z40m642s
Publisher
n.d. [1860s-1890s].
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1860
Extent
1 item ; print 26.7 x 20.5 cm. sheet 35.3 x 27.8 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Unidentified Artist [photographer]
Medium: Albumen prints, Hand coloring
Depiction: Landscape with view of two figures standing at temple entrance gateway.
Inscribed in ink, verso: 'After passing through the torii at the top of the // last flight of the 200 steps we reach another oratory, // only used when that below is undergoing repairs. // A little lower and to the right is a small building // which contains the armor of Iyeyasu. // The tomb is a single bronze casting of a light color. // Produced, it is said, by the admixture of gold // and has exactly the same shape as those in // the same material of the later tycoons at Shiba. // In front stands a low stone table, bearing an // immense bronze stork with a brass candle // in its mouth, an incense burner of bronze, // and a vase with lotus flowers and leaves in // brass. The whole is surrounded by a stone wall // surmounted by a stone balustrade. The entrance // being through a bronze gate (not open to the public) // the roof of which as well as gate itself is a solid // casting. Before it sit bronze Koma inu & Ama inu.'
Numbered in negative, lower right: "777".
Unsigned.

Discovery Information

Subject
Meiji Period—18601899
Photography—Japan—19th century
Bakumatsu—Meiji period
Landscapes—Japan—Nikko Region
Tombs—Japan—Nikko Region—In art
Buildings—Japan—Nikko Region—In art
Landscapes—East Asia

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/594e7efc-a3b0-47cb-854d-ffa89a2c3d39/manifest