Wisteria at the Kameido Tenjin Shrine, Tokyo, Japan.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1900
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Image size 89 x 137 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520767.37
Summary
A hand-coloured albumen print photograph in landscape format, depicting the Kameido Tenjin Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, with the famous wisteria gardens. Along the water's edge are platforms on stilts and above these are trellises with wisteria growing all over. Some people can be seen on the nearest platform. Captioned photographically in the negative is "View of Tokio (sic)".
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986.