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

View of the Sink Room (also known as the Hand-washing Room) of the New Palace (also known as the New Goten), 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).

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 22.8 x 17.6 cm secondary support: 35.5 x 28.0 cm

PH1986:0219

• interior view

signed - by the photographer, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.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] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, l.r.: "17- 3 [partially erased] / 91 / 2 [partially erased]"

Kyoto; Japan;

• architecture
• design d'intérieur

• railing
• palace
• bamboo
• villa
• lavatory (room)
• chute
• basin stand

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