• Felice Beato (photographer)

View of barracks at the daimyo residence of the Hosokawa clan, Edo (now Tokyo), Japan

between 1863 and 1868

- The inscription identifying the subject of this photograph as the Satsuma residence in Edo (now Tokyo) is probably incorrect, although the Satsuma residence is similar in appearance to the Hosokawa barracks. The Satsuma residence is depicted in photograph PH1981:0620:009, also by Beato, which is reproduced in Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (p. 18, fig. 2).

Albumen silver print

comp.: 19.5 x 25.7 cm secondary support: 33.5 x 45.2 cm

PH1976:0064

• exterior view

- There are traces of another page affixed to the top edge of the secondary support.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.r.: "385 [?]" [partially erased] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, u.r.: "Beato" [upside-down] and "19 [circled]" [upside-down] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, l.l.: "Beato"

Tokyo; Japan;

• architecture
• militaire

• official residence
• dwellings
• ceramic tile
• barracks
• gutter (roadside element)
• daimyo residence