Title(s)

Boeddhistische priester loopt over straat met een beeltenis van de godin Kannon op zijn rug
"Senju Kannon," (A Thousand-Handed Godess of Mercy) (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1570-36

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘An image (...) their behalf.’

Artist

• photographer: anonymous
• Kazumasa Ogawa

Place

photographer: Japan
Tokyo

Dating

c. 1895 - in or before c. 1900

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype / color lithography / hand coloring

Measurements

height 230 mm × width 166 mm

What

• priest ~ Shinto
• representations ~ goddesses, demi-goddesses, heroines, etc. (non-Christian religions)

Where

• Japan

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Illustrations of Japanese life / descr. by S. Takashima (RP-F-2001-7-1570)