Yudaki waterfall at Yumoto hot spring

Category

Library Item

Item no

15178

Title

Yudaki waterfall at Yumoto hot spring Yumoto hot spring

Description

Two men sitting on branches amid the torrent show the huge scale of the waterfall. Trees surround the area.

Artist / maker

von Stillfried-Ratenicz, Franz

Date

1881

Size

24 x 19.5 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Art and Design Library

Yudaki Falls (literally 'Hot Waterfall') flow from Lake Yunoko, and become the Yu River which goes through Senjogahara, near the city of Nikko. The Falls are about 70m high and flow at a 45 degrees angle. The tree in the centre of the basin, which grew to be large, was destroyed in a flood during the Showa era (1926-1989). This picture was taken in the same area as the photograph of the Old Hakone Highway near Hatayado (item n°15161).

This item is part of a collection of prints from the studio of Baron Franz von Stillfried-Ratenicz, an Austrian photographer practising in Japan in the late 1870's. Von Stillfried ran a studio in Yokohama at the same time as his brother Raimund, who was also known as 'Baron Stillfried'. This caused a great deal of confusion with the local residents and visitors to Japan in the Meiji Period, and with art historians today.

This album, which dates from 1879-83, comprises 67 separate mounted prints presented in a lacquerware box. Albums of this kind were popular among foreign tourists, who frequently selected the individual prints they wished to include from the studio's collection. Many of these albumen prints were hand tinted. This was a laborious process for which von Stillfried employed, at the height of his success, a substantial number of Japanese workers. The hand-colouring of this picture has been done with great care and precision.

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Landscape > Water > Waterfalls

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