Sorinto Nikko
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- R305 (Rosin Number). FSA A1999.35 305
- General
- Forms part of Rosin album number 1. Page 13.
- Title taken from label affixed to bottom center of mount.
- This album, with covers of lacquer and ivory, was produced by a shop which used photographs by Beato, Von Stillfried, Kimbei, and others, without including their descriptions or numbers. Each photograph is described by a label affixed below the print. The work is almost certainly by A. Farsari, who owned the stock of all of these photographs in the 1880s. Kimbei kept some stock he had purchased from Von Stillfried in his own shop. Confusion and uncertainty regarding attribution of 19th century Japanese photography is well-discussed in published material.
- Album Information
- rosinalbum1 013
- Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- 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
- Japan
- Nikko (Japan)
- Topic
- Photography -- Japan
- Photography -- 19th century
- Temples -- Japan
- Architecture -- Japan
- Pillars
- Towers
- Trees
- Religion
- Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- See more items in
- Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan
- Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan / Series FSA A1999.35 A1: Photo album from the studio of Adolpho Farsari
- Extent
- 1 Photographic print (Album 1, page 13, hand coloring, image 26.5 x 20.4 cm.; on mount 26 x 33.5 cm)
- Date
- [1860 - ca. 1900]
- Container
- Box 1, Item R305
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A1999.35, Item FSA A1999.35 305
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Photographs
- 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
- Steps leading to Sorinto Pillar at Rinnoji Temple in Nikko. A lone figure stands in front of the gates to Sorinto Pillar.
- Sorinto was built in 1643 by the high priest Tenkai Sojo during the reign of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa shoguns. Sorinto was meant to keep the evil spirits away, and to ensure peace within the nation.
- Photographer unidentified.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1643210100175-1643210104373-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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