Postcard Nikkō Tōshōgū 1
A black-and-white photograph with subsequent hand colouring showing the five-story tower of the Tōshōgū shrine in Nikkō. The shrine was founded in 1617 and dedicated to the first shogun of the Edo period, Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Manufacturing technique: coloured print
Inscription: （日光名所）五重ノ塔 Nikkō meisho Gojū no tō (Sights in Nikkō: Five-story pagoda)
NIKKOH MEISHO.
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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