Subject: Tombs and Sepulchral Monuments / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/3(1)
Title:: Graves of the forty-seven Ronins [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of a portion of the cemetery in the Sengaku-ji Temple (see print 5), containing the graves of the 47 Ronin (masterless samurai), who committed seppuku on 14 February 1703.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/7(6)
Title:: Village cemetery. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across a field towards the headstones of the cemetery, with figures posed in the foreground: 'This is so commonly seen — a burial ground on the confines of a village, amid fields — only separated from them by a narrow footpath, and reposing under the sh...
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

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/14(2)
Title:: Grave of a Japanese student in America. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Showing four young Japanese men gathered round the grave of Taro Kusakabe, a student at Rutgers College, who died in 1870. The grave is in the Japanese Burial Lot in Willow Grove Cemetery, New Brunswick: 'At the right of the monument, stands Mr Kozo Sugiura, now thir...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/14(6)
Title:: Ancient burial ground with image of O Shaka Sama [Tokyo?]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: General view of cemetery, with bronze image in the left foreground. Location unspecified.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/16(3)
Title:: A Tokugawa burial ground, at Ooweno [Ueno, Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of tombs of the shoguns at Ueno.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1873
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/17(2)
Title:: The tomb of Mr Heuskin [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Close view of the headstone over the grave of Henry C. J. Heusken (1832-1861), interpreter to the American Legation in Japan, in the foreign Cemetery in Tokyo. This issue of 'The Far East' contains a detailed account of the circumstances of his death.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1873
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/24(3)
Title:: Tomb of Sanada Yoichi [at Sugita]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: View of two memorial headstones, with a young Japanese girl seated on the pathway between them. Sanada Yoichi was a follower of the warlord Yoritomo, and was fatally wounded in defence of his master: 'After the battle, he was conveyed by his own people, to the little village of Sugita, — the vil...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1873
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: RB.23.a.23292(184)
Title:: Wordsworth's Tomb, Grasmere churchyard. Photographer: Ogle, Thomas
Scope & Content:: Close view of the the headstone of William and Mary Wordsworth.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1864-1867
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: S.W.275, 1(11)
Title:: Dolmen at Konur. Photographer: Burgess, James
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography General view of the dolmen, with an Indian figure seated on it. Another copy at APAC Photo 1000/3 (312).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1874
Extent:: 1 item

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