Postcard Asakusa Kanzeon
A colour photograph (or black and white with subsequent hand colouring) showing the front walkway to the main building of Tokyo’s oldest Buddhist temple, Sensōji. It is interesting to see the visitors and the stalls.
Manufacturing technique: colour print or black-and-white print with hand colouring
Inscription: （帝都名所）浅草観世音 Teito meisho Asakusa Kanzeon (Famous places of the capital: Asakusa Kanzeon) THE ASAKUSA-KANZEON SHRINE
No. of parts: 1
Current owner: Celje Regional Museum
Date of the last acquisition: 1957–1960
Previous owners and periods of ownership: Alma M. Karlin (from year 1950)| Thea Schreiber Gammelin (from year 1950 to year 1957)| Celje Regional Museum (from year 1957)
Object condition, handling and damage: well preserved
Press releases: Shigemori Bučar, Chikako. “Alma M. Karlin’s Visits to Temples and Shrines in Japan". Poligrafi 93/94, volume 24 (2019).
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