Garden of the Ichida family at Tairyūsansō in Kyoto, Japan
Category
Photographs
Date
1909
Materials
Glass
Measurements
120 x 164 x 2 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522899.18
Summary
Gelatine silver glass dry plate negative in landscape format, depicting a lake at the Garden of the Ichida family at Tairyūsansō in Kyoto. Tairyūsansō was built as a detached mansion of Ijūin Kanetsune in 1896, and was purchased by the Ichida family in 1901. The garden, first built during Ijūin's possession, was renovated by Ogawa Jihei into its present form between 1902 and 1905. Water drawn from the Biwako conduit is used for water-related scenery such as waterfalls, ponds, streams, and a water mill, and the Higashiyama mountains are used as borrowed scenery. Additional information handwritten on the sleeve (not original): "May 24 1909, Kyoto Garden of Ichida one year after making. F.L. F/11 1/10" Part of the Christie Miller Collection.
Provenance
Donated to the Fox Talbot Museum in 1976 by (the daughter of the photographer) Jane Wakefield Christie-Miller (1922-2017) of Swyncombe House, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 6EA