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Work Type:	photography
Date of work:	1881
Materials:	medium: hand-coloured photograph notes: framed
Measurements:	height: 20 cm extent: image size width: 27 cm extent: image size height: 52 cm extent: framed size width: 47.8 cm extent: framed size depth: 3.5 cm extent: framed size
Subject:	religion, crowd portrait, Buddhism
Technique:	photography
Collection:	One Hundred Photographs

Description:	The scene is the temple of Honmonji at Ikegami in southwest Tokyo, taken in October 1881, when the 600th anniversary of the death of the temple's founder, Nichiren, was formally marked by this procession. [MORE] [LESS] The scene is the temple of Honmonji at Ikegami in southwest Tokyo, taken in October 1881, when the 600th anniversary of the death of the temple's founder, Nichiren, was formally marked by this procession.