Insert page Huanqiu Altar
Insert page Huanqiu Altar
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The 153rd insert from the album The Imperial City of Beijing, China. The photo shows the Huanqiu Altar (Huanqiutan 圜丘壇), located in the Temple of Heaven (Tiantan 天壇) complex in Beijing, and one of the eight triple gates leading to it.
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 Altar and the Gateways in the Temple of Heaven.
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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