Title: Textile Hanging of Nikko Shrine
Date: circa 1890
Location: Japan
Materials: cut velvet silk
Dimensions: 224 x 165 cm
Accession Number: MISC 37
Other Notes:
The great shogunal mausoleum at Nikko, in the mountains to the north of Tokyo, was a very popular foreign tourist destination from the 1870s onwards. The gateway to the main shrine of the Toshogu, built by Tokugawa Hidetada in memory of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, was frequently depicted in the cut velvet technique, but this is an exceptionally large and impressive example.
Bibliography:
J. Earle, Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji period from the Khalili Collection, London 2002, cat. 280, pp. 392–3.
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