| Creator |
Unknown -- Architect, Planner -- Japanese |
| Title |
Sannen-zaka |
| Spatial Coverage |
Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto-ken, Japan |
| Description |
Stone-paved pedestrian road, shops and Yasaka-jinja Pagoda. The pagoda is said to have been built by Shotoku taishi (574-622), who was a Regent in the Asuka era. The present tower was reconstructed by Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394-1441), the 6th shogun in the Muromachi era. It is 40 meters high and the oldest tower in Kyoto city. |
| Work Dates |
17th century |
| Date Earliest |
1600 |
| Century |
17 |
| Style Period |
Japanese, Edo (early modern) |
| Culture |
Japanese |
| Subject |
Districts -- Historic districts; Districts -- Residential districts -- Neighborhoods; Open spaces -- Transportation spaces -- Roads -- Streets -- Pedestrian streets; Commercial buildings -- Mercantile buildings -- Stores -- Retail stores; Ceremonial structures -- Religious structures -- Religious buildings -- Pagodas |
| Image Source |
Kazuo Matsubayashi. |
| Rights |
Digital image copyright 2003, Kazuo Matsubayashi, University of Utah. All rights reserved. |
| Contributing Institution |
University of Utah |
| CA+P Accession No. |
KM-0345a |
| Format |
image/jpeg |
| Type |
Image |
| Digitization Specifications |
Scanned with Nikon LS-4000 ED film scanner and saved as uncompressed TIFF. Color corrected manually in Photoshop CS and converted to JPEG. |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6js9ts2 |
| Setname |
uu_cap_coa |
| ID |
90624 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6js9ts2 |
