Insert page Staircase in Front of the Taihe Hall
The 26th insert from the album The Imperial City of Beijing, China. The photo shows part of the staircase in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony (Taihedian 太和殿) in the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing, which was exclusively for the use of the emperor.
Workshop / factory / publisher: Ogawa Kazumasa, Tokyo Imperial Museum
Place of manufacture: Tokyo
Material description: paper
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white print
Dimensions: length: 48.2 cm, height: 36.4 cm
Inscription: The Front Steps of the T'ai-hê Hall.
No. of parts: 1
Current owner: Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Date of the last acquisition: 1963
Last acquisition method: donation
Previous owners and periods of ownership: Ivan Skušek, Jr. and Tsuneko Kondō Kawase – Marija Skušek, National Museum of Slovenia, Slovene Ethnographic Museum
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