Detail View: Ira Wolff Photographic History Collection: Statues at Renge-in

File Name: 
wolff_singlesAsiaAfricaEurope_006.tif
Collection Name: 
Ira Wolff Photographic History Collection
Collection Description: 
The Ira Wolff Photographic History Collection consists of approximately 7,000 original photographs and 7,000 publications, largely from the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. As a whole, the collection traces the invention of photography, the scientific and technical components of its development, the history of photomechanical printing, vernacular photographic practices, and the medium's role in social and cultural documentation. The digitized portion of the collection focuses exclusively on private photographic albums ranging from cartes-de-visite albums to travel albums.
Work Type: 
photographs
Work Title: 
Statues at Renge-in
Work Date: 
1880/1900
Work Date Type: 
creation
Location Name: 
Japan--Kyoto
Repository Location Name: 
University of Colorado Boulder Special Collections Department
Repository Location Type: 
corporate
Technique: 
gelatin silver prints
Technique Vocab: 
aat
Technique: 
hand coloring
Technique Vocab: 
aat
Inscription Text: 
"The gold lacquered statues of Kivannom in the San-Ju-Gen-Do temple. The name means 33,333 statues. Each statue is 5 ft. high. Kioto"
Inscription Text Type: 
caption
Work Description: 
Image No. 6. "Gold laquered Statues of Kivannom in the San-Ju-Gen-Do temple." Extended title in ink. 5 x 3 5/8 mounted photo. c. 1897
Work Description: 
(=San Ju San Gendo Temple, Kyoto) = (Rengeo-in Temple) 1001 statues of the Buddhist deity, Juichimen-senju-sengen Kanzeon, ..."Kannon" 1001 images as the appearance of 33,033 Kannons
Work Description: 
Legacy file ID changed to match file names with extension on 2021-07-01. Original ID was: Wolff_AsiaAfricaEurope_singles_006.jpg
Relation: 
Asia, Africa, and Europe album
Relation Type: 
partOf
Relation Relids: 
wolff_asiaAfricaEurope
Relation href: 
http://cudl.colorado.edu/luna/servlet/s/cckl62
Image Rights: 
The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Image Title: 
Statues at Renge?-in
Image Work Type: 
digital images
Identifier ARK: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/6g1k7g16d99d