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Buddhist priests at Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto – Historic Print

Buddhist priests at Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto, [between 1915 and 1925] — historic photograph
Buddhist priests at Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto, [between 1915 and 1925]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Buddhist priests at Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Kiyomizu Temple, perched on the wooded slopes of Kyoto's eastern hills, is among the city's best-known Buddhist sites, founded in the late eighth century and famous for its wooden stage projecting over a steep ravine. This picture shows priests at the temple, part of a set of four photographic prints from the years between 1915 and 1925 in the Kanji Collection. The record is based on an old caption card and has not been verified, so the exact occasion and the identities of the men are unknown. Still, the scene offers a glimpse of temple life in the early twentieth century, when Kyoto drew growing numbers of Western travelers eager to photograph its shrines and monks.

Created / published[between 1915 and 1925]
Medium4 photographic prints.
NotesKanji Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,196 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-107080

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