Subject: Religious Images / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 1/1(3)
Title:: Daibutz, Kamakura, Japan. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Head-on view of the great bronze Buddha image at Kamakura.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/10(4)
Title:: Roku-ji-zo. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of the six stone images, placed beneath a thatched structure: '...the Roku-ji-zo, is a collection of six gods who are supposed to guard the roads that lead to the celestial and infernal regions, and they are supplicated to direct the way of the departed spi...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/14(4)
Title:: Idol of Jeso Sama, Lake Hakone. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View of the image, with two Japanese men in front: 'Emerging from a fine avenue of trees, we come to the shore of Lake Hakone, and upon a solitary idol, Jeso sama; a deified being who is supposed to keep the roads to Heaven and Hell. He is one of the rokujizo, a pho...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/1(1)
Title:: Siamese image, scroll, etc., formerly the property of Will Adams. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of a group of images, apparently belonging to William Adams (d. 1620), the earliest British resident in Japan. The relics belonged to the temple pictured in print 4. Adams' burial place at Hemi-mura was re-discovered by James Walters in 1872, and this issue...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/4(6)
Title:: Images of the Five Hundred Gods [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of images ranged on wooden shelves, inside the temple seen in the preceding print.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/5(5)
Title:: Idol and Pagoda, Kioto. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking up steps towards the temple entrance, with a Buddha image on a stone plinth in the left foreground.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/6(5)
Title:: Images at Asakusa [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of two images, with Japanese figures posed in the foreground
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/7(3)
Title:: Shrine of Hondo-sama in the Temple Zozoji, Shiba [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Interior of the Zojo-ji, the family temple of the Tokugawa clan, showing the shrine and central image.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/9(2)
Title:: Idol (Daibutsz) at Kudang. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Seated Buddha statue and other smaller images in foreground, with steps leading to the temple gateway in the background.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/9(6)
Title:: Shaka Sama [Tokyo?]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

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