Temples: Shitennoji Temple, Osaka, Japan [029]

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Title Temples: Shitennoji Temple, Osaka, Japan [029]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 36, Japan, Osaka, Temples, Shitennoji (593 A.D.), 29
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1980
Subject Shitennōji (Osaka, Japan)--Photographs; Temples--Japan--Osaka--Photographs; Sepulchral monuments--Japan--Osaka--Photographs; Cemeteries--Japan--Osaka--Photographs; Statues--Japan--Osaka--Photographs; Kṣitigarbha (Buddhist deity)--Art--Photographs; Shōtoku Taishi, 574-622--Photographs; Japan; Statues
Keywords Shitenno-ji; Shotoku; Jizō
Spatial Coverage Honshū (Japan); Kansai Region (Japan); Osaka (Japan : Prefecture); Osaka (Japan)
Description Photograph of Jizo sculpture in cemetery (possibly located at Shitennoji Temple?), Osaka, Japan
Caption on Slide Jizo sculpture in cemetery, Shitennoji Temple, Osaka, Japan.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: Shitennoji Temple was founded in 593 by Prince Shotoku. Although the temple's buildings burned down several times throughout the centuries, they were always carefully reconstructed to reflect the original 6th century design.--Japan Guide website.
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/s6xk8xtq
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 334366
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xk8xtq
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