Nikko: Niten-mon at Taiyu'in Mausoleum
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- R100 (Rosin Number) FSA A1999.35 100
- Collector
- Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- Depicted
- Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920
- Collection Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Collection Creator
- Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920
- Ueno, Hikoma, 1838-1904
- Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
- Collection Collector
- Rosin, Nancy
- Collection Creator
- Stillfried, Raimund, Baron von, 1839-1911
- Underwood & Underwood
- Place
- Asia -- Japan
- Topic
- Photography -- Japan
- Photography -- 19th century
- Temples -- Japan
- Architecture -- Japan
- Religion
- Collector
- Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- See more items in
- Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan
- Biographical / Historical
- Benjamin Smith Lyman was one of a number of Western experts, brought to Japan by the Meiji government, who worked and also taught the Japanese western science and technology. He was the first Western geologist in Japan. He photographed extensively and collected commercial photographs in the 1870s.
- Extent
- 1 Item (Photographic print, 27.4 x 20.7 cm.)
- Date
- ca. 1878
- Container
- Box 22, Item R100
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A1999.35, Item FSA A1999.35 100
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Collection Citation
- Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. FSA.A1999.35. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Genre/Form
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Scope and Contents
- A Westerner, along with another man, sit at the top of stone steps in front of Taiyu-in at Rinnoji. According to previous description, the seated Westerner is Benjamin Smith Lyman. The print shows a small hair that was present on the negative when the negative was created.
- 日光 輪王寺 大猷院
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1643210100175-1643210104524-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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