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

View of the Moon-viewing Platform, the pond and the garden showing the Second Room of the Old Shoin in the foreground, Katsura Rikyu (also known as Katsura Imperial Villa), Kyoto, Japan

1953

- 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).
- This photograph was taken from inside the Second Room of the Old Shoin looking out over the broad veranda and the Moon-viewing Platform to the pond and the garden beyond (Isozaki, et al, pp. 74-75, repr.; p. 244; Ito, p. 42, 79-80, site plan).

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 17.9 x 23.9 cm secondary support: 35.6 x 28.1 cm

PH1986:0199

• exterior view
• interior view

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.: "19- 1 [partially erased] / 56 / 14- 2 [crossed out; partially erased]"

Kyoto; Japan;

• architecture
• architecture de paysage

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

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