Search Digital Records
Limit your search
Item Type- Still Image (2)
- Japan (2)
- Itsukushima-chō (Japan) (1)
- Nikkō-shi (Japan) (1)
2 results
Photograph of the Yōmeimon gate at Nikkō Tōshō-gū in Nikkō, Japan, circa 1945-1952.
Typed caption in margin: "Yomei-mon Gate of the Toshogu Shrine, Nikko, the most resplendent gate in the Orient."
Typed caption on verso: "Nikko, Japan, is one of the great show places of Japan. In Nikko is a group of shrines and temples like no others in the world. Elaborate in architecture and adorned with…
Photograph of Miyajima on the island of Itsukushima, Japan, showing waterside lanterns and the torii gate, circa 1945-1952.
Typed caption on margin: "Torii or Shrine Gate and Stone Lanterns on Miyajima or 'Shrine Island', Inland Sea."
Typed caption on verso: "Miyajima (Pron. Me-yah-jee-mah) -- Miya (shrine), jima (island), literally, 'Shrine Island', on which is located the famed 'Torii'. This…