Yasukuni Shrine

Image View Description

Exterior: Statue

Date

1869, periodically rebuilt and restored

Work Type
architecture
Culture
Japanese
Location
Tokyo (Japan)
Notes

View of the statue of Omura Masujiro (1824-1869), founder of the modern Japanese Army. It was created by Ujihiro Okuma (1856-1934) in 1893 and is supposedly Japan's first Western-style statue.

Image Source

The Trustees of Columbia University, Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology

Photographer
Jonathan Reynolds
Record ID
Yasukuni_Shrine_0056