Genre: Architectural Photography Seated Buddha statue and other smaller images in foreground, with steps leading to the temple gateway in the background.
Genre: Architectural Photography View of an image of Shaka Sama, 'the first who introduced the Buddhist religion into Japan,' with the tombs of wives of Tokugawa lords on either side.
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the temple, with large Buddha image in front: 'The temple of Agoin, with its bronze statue of Daibutsz and the votive offerings in front thereof, has nothing special to be told about it; though probably it makes a slightly more picturesque photog...
Ooweno — site of the temples [Ueno, Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across open ground, formerly the site of three large temples. Ueno hill was chosen by the second shogun, Tokugawa Hidetada, as a defensive site in 1624 and a number of temples were erected there. On the collapse of the Shogunate in 1868, Tokug...