View of the Music Room veranda showing the south lawn (also known as the court football [kemari] field) and a corner of the New Palace (also known as the New Goten) in the background, Katsura Rikyu (also known as Katsura Imperial Villa), Kyoto, Japan

People:

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

Title:

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).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.7 x 22.6 cm secondary support: 35.5 x 28.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0212

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.: "77"

Location:

Kyoto; Japan;

Subject:

architecture
landscape architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

garden
trees
palace
porch
veranda
villa
lawn

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

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