Social Life and Customs, Japan: New Year Celebration [052]

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Title Social Life and Customs, Japan: New Year Celebration [052]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 63, Japanese New Year, 2
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1952
Subject Atsuta Jingū (Nagoya-shi, Japan)--Photographs; Shinto shrines--Japan--Nagoya--Photographs; New Year--Japan--Nagoya--Photographs; Manners and customs--Japan--Nagoya--Photographs; Japan--History--Allied occupation,--1945-1952--Photographs; Japan--Description and travel--Photographs; Japan; Holidays; New Year; Atsuta Jingū (Nagoya-shi, Japan); Men; Women; Children
Keywords Celebrations; Atsutajinja; Oshōgatsu; People
Spatial Coverage Honshū (Japan); Aichi-ken (Japan); Nagoya-shi (Japan); Atsuta-ku (Nagoya-shi, Japan)
Description Photograph of money throwing tradition, New Year's Day, Atsuta Shrine, Nagoya, Japan
Caption on Slide Money throwing tradition, New Year's Day, Atsuta Shrine, Japan
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: Atsuta Shrine is a Shinto shrine traditionally believed to have been established during the reign of Emperor Keikō (71-130) located in Atsuta-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture in Japan. The shrine is familiarly known as Atsuta-Sama (Venerable Atsuta) or simply as Miya (the Shrine). Since ancient times, it has been especially revered."--Wikipedia. Note: Lennox Tierney served as Commissioner of Art and Monuments during the Allied occupation of Japan (1945-1952). Note: See images with File Names: sl_occupation_060, sl_occupation_061, and tokaidorightscreen045.
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Rights Management This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Multimedia Archivist, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.
ARK ark:/87278/s6t15mk8
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Tierney, Lennox; Tierney, Catherine
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 339994
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6t15mk8
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