Zōjō-ji Temple at Shiba Park, Tokyo

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Title: Zōjō-ji Temple at Shiba Park, Tokyo See all items with this value
Caption: Shiba Temple Tokyo See all items with this value
Identifier: SEFA_030
Alternative Identifier: Simpson Album p4
Description: A group of foreigners, two men and two women, stand on the steps to the temple, while a Japanese man stands on the street near a rickshaw. An electric streetcar is stopped on the road across from the temple entrance while power lines crisscross the intersection. See all items with this value
Commentary: EKS visited Tokyo only one day on his way through Japan to Shanghai. Although EKS comments that people no longer visit temples in Tokyo, this temple is still functioning today. See all items with this value
Date Created: Between 1913-02-12 and 1913-02-15
Location: Tokyo, Japan See all items with this value
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1850147/tokyo.html
Event: 1913 Dr. E. Kyle Simpson's First Yangtze River Voyage
Original Format: Photographic print
Is Part Of: Simpson-Estabrook Photo Album
Source: Courtesy of Kyle Jolliffe
Provenance: E. Kyle Simpson photos curated by Alice Estabrook Simpson - captions written by her. In the care of Kyle Jolliffe. See all items with this value
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
Publisher: SIUE
Contributor: Cory Willmott; Kyle Jolliffe
Type: Still Image
References: Tripadvisor Attraction - Zōjō-ji Temple at Shiba Park, Tokyo; "As we pass into streets widened to permit the introduction of street cars and see the modern structures taking the place of shops, we are aware that old Japan is passing. We see on one corner the wonderfully carved gods of a temple. No more do the people come to worship in its corridors, for in the new order of things quite modern stores with plate glass fronts have taken their place."; 1913 Letter from Dr. E. Kyle Simpson, Chungking, West China

Media: SEFA_030_Simpson Album p4 Shiba Temple Tokyo.jpg

Resource class: Image