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Description

Panorama of Edo (now Tokyo) showing daimyo residences, Japan. Five albumen silver prints joined to form a panorama. Original Beato's title: Panorama of Yedo from Atagoyama Following the end of the Shogunate in 1867, the daimyo residences in Edo (now Tokyo) were razed so that government, commercial and industrial buildings could be built in their place (Modot, p. 528).

Date

1865 or 1866

Source

366days.net

Author



Alternative names	Felix Beato
Description	Italian photographer, journalist, war photographer, photojournalist and architectural photographer
Date of birth/death	1832 (or perhaps as late as 1834)	29 January 1909 (or perhaps as early as 1907)
Location of birth/death	Venice, Austria-Hungary	Florence, Italy
Work period	19th century
Work location	Yokohama (1863–1877); Istanbul; Myanmar
Authority file	: Q318352 VIAF: 95698883 ISNI: 0000000117981448 ULAN: 500002985 LCCN: n85044155 Oxford Dict.: 41130 WorldCat

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References

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Collections Online, "Panorama of Edo (now Tokyo)", PH1981:0809:001-005 archive copy at the Wayback Machine, cited 10 March 2006
Modot, Jean. 'Japon' (Paris: Hachette guides bleus, 1984), 528.

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