Postcard Kameido Tenjin
A colour photograph (or perhaps black and white with subsequent hand colouring) of a stone bull in the courtyard of the Kameido Tenjin shrine. The shrine is dedicated to the scholar and poet of the Heian period, Sugawara Michizane, who was born in the year of the bull according to the ancient Chinese calendar.
Workshop / factory / publisher: OTSUBO, KANDA TOKYO
Manufacturing technique: coloured print
Inscription: 龜戸天神境内石牛 Kameido tenjin keidai ishiushi (Kameido tenjin: stone bull in the shrine) KAMEIDO 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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