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

The New Palace and Lawn Seen from the Middle Shoin, Katsura Palace, 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).

Gelatin silver print épreuve argentique à la gélatine

composition: 16.5 x 23.7 cm secondary support: 35.6 x 27.9 cm

PH1986:0205

• 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] stamped - blind embossed, on the secondary support, l.r.: "FAVOR - RUHL CO./ WABASH / KID FINISH"; [in an oval; upside-down] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in black ink, on the secondary support, verso, u.l.: with a checkmark numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, l.r.: "66 / 8-1 [partially erased] / 15- [?] [partially erased]"

Kyoto; Japan;

• architecture
• architecture de paysage
• design d'intérieur
• peinture

• garden
• palace
• porch
• veranda
• villa
• rooms
• mural paintings
• lawn
• shoji
• tatamis
• fusuma

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