Insert page Statue of Buddhist Deity
Insert page Statue of Buddhist Deity
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The 122nd insert from the album The Imperial City of Beijing, China. The photo shows the statue of a Buddhist deity in the shrine on the south side of the stupa at the Yongan Temple (Yongansi 永安寺). This is located on an island in the Beihai Lake (Beihai 北海) of the former Imperial West Park (Xiyuan 西苑), which is west of the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing.
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 Idol in the Shrine in before the Yung-an Temple Supa.
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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