Censer at Kuonji Buddhist Temple on Mt. Minobu in Japan
Category
Photographs
Date
1909
Materials
Glass
Measurements
164 x 120 x 2 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522900.4
Summary
Gelatine silver glass dry plate negative in portrait format, depicting a stone lantern censer the Kuonji Buddhist Temple on Mt. Minobu in Yamanashi, west of Fuji in Japan in 1909. Additional information handwritten on the sleeve (not original): "47. May 17 1909. Minobu Censa (sic) with blur(?). F/16 4 sec SSO" 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