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The Shinkyō Bridge
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Description
This hanging depicts the red-painted ‘Sacred Bridge’ near the entrance to the Tōshōgū Mausoleum at Nikkō, a popular tourist spot. The Tōshōgū is dedicated to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate that ruled Japan for over 250 years until 1868. This design was copied from a photograph, probably taken before 1902, when the bridge was rebuilt with solid stone girders. (Exhibition number 30)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (probable place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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late 19th century - early 20th century
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed, and embroidered with coloured silk (partly applied over cotton wadding), flat silk, and paper-backed gold foil wrapped around a silk or cotton core; cotton border, dyed dark-brown
- Dimensions
- 133 x 173 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
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dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.39
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 9 November 2012-27 January 2013, Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, Clare Pollard, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 30 p. 144, illus. p. 144
Past Exhibition
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Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan
(from 9th Nov 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)
Location
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- returned to owner
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