Insert page Triumphal Arch in the Wanshoushan Complex
The 141st insert from the album The Imperial City of Beijing, China. The photo shows the triumphal arch pailou 牌樓 in the complex at the foot of Longevity Hill (Wanshoushan 萬壽山) and the Summer Palace (Yiheyuan 頤和園) in Beijing. In the background is the Kunming Lake (Kunminghu 昆明湖).
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 Pai-lou in the Wan-shou Shan Palace.
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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