Fragile Beauty of Old Japan
Photograph
Fragile Beauty of Old Japan
Courtyard of the Meiji Shrine
1951
Gelatin silver print
Image: 5 5/8 × 6 7/16 in. (14.3 × 16.3 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0543
DescriptionShinto priests walking to the Meiji Temple in Tokyo
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, BC: 11/61 23) FRAGILE BEAUTY OF OLD JAPAN is conveyed \ in this picture by the late Werner Bischof, which is \ the title picture of his book "Japan" just published \ by Bantam Books. Here Shinto priests walk across the \ snow to the Meiji Temple in Tokyo, in a scene which \ could be a thousand years old. \ Credit: Werner Bischof © 1961 MAGNUM Photos
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