View of the Moon-viewing Platform, the pond and the garden, Katsura Rikyu (also known as Katsura Imperial Villa), Kyoto, Japan

People:

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

Title:

View of the Moon-viewing Platform, the pond and the garden, 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).
- In front of the bamboo Moon-viewing Platform is a portion of the wooden broad veranda of the Old Shoin (Ito, 42, 79-80).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.5 x 23.8 cm secondary support: 35.5 x 28.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0198

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

signed - by the photographer, in graphite, on the secondary support, c.r.: "Yas Ishimoto" [below the l.r. corner of the image] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, l.r.: "55 / 19- 2 [partially erased] / 14- 3 [partially erased]" inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, t.: "P 113"

Location:

Kyoto; Japan;

Subject:

architecture
landscape architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

garden
trees
palace
porch
veranda
wood (plant material)
pond
stone lantern (lighting device)
bamboo
villa

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

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