Subject: Shrines / Material Type: Photographs - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Maps 8.bb.37(245)
Title:: Jinja shrine, Mishima. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View across pool towards buildings.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Maps 8.bb.37(246)
Title:: Jinja shrine, Mishima. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards torii gateway to shrine.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Maps 8.bb.37(248)
Title:: Kunozan Toshogu shrine, Sumpu. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking up a flight of steps towards the torii gateway, with temple buildings beyond.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Maps 8.d.24(36)
Title:: Yedo [Tokyo]. Residence of a Hatshiman [Hachiman shrine]. Photographer: Burger, Wilhelm
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the paved pathway, which passes through a torii gateway towards the shrine to Hachiman, the Shinto god of war.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Maps 8.d.24(68)
Title:: An der Strasse von Tokaido [On the Tokaido]. Photographer: Burger, Wilhelm
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View of a torii gateway leading to a shrine, with memorial stones in front, on the Tokaido highway between Tokyo and Kyoto.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/502a (1)
Title:: Group of pagodas and shrines in the south-east corner of platform [of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'P. Klier Rangoon' at bottom right. Genre: Architectural Photography View of 'the group of pagodas and shrines found in the south-east corner of the platform which are represented in the first and second photographs. The mast with a fluttering peacock at its head carries st...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/502a (2)
Title:: Enlarged view of shrine in south-east corner [of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'P. Klier Rangoon' at bottom right. Genre: Architectural Photography View of shrine, 'made of masonry, and the whole of the front portion is glass mosaic set in cement.'
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/502a (3)
Title:: Shrine in south-east corner [of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'P. Klier Rangoon' at bottom right. Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of shrine, with Buddha image within: 'Another example not far off is shown in the third photograph. An alabaster image is seen seated on a throne adorned with glass mosaic, while the background ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/502a (4)
Title:: Base of main shrine facing east [Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Captioned in the negative, 'Burmese glass mosaic 507B. P. Klier Rangoon.' Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards shrine, with figures praying on the open platform in the foreground: 'Passing along the platform, the main shrine at the base of the pagoda facing East n...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/502a (5)
Title:: Workman fixing glass on pattern dusted on with chalk. Main shrine facing north [Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon]. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of craftsman, at work on a column of a new shrine: 'The shrine facing the north has been pulled down and a new one is being built. Photographs (Nos. 5 and 6) have been taken of the men actually fixing on the glass mosaic, and in No. 5 a very good idea...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

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