- Artist
横山松三郎/撮影
YOKOYAMA Matsusaburo
- Title
- 旧江戸城写真ガラス原板 清水門Edo Castle: Shimizumon Gate
- Year
- 1871
- Dims/Durs
- 23 x 29.8
- Collection
- 江戸東京博物館The Edo-Tokyo Museum
- Accession number
- 90363711
- Notes
- 1871年（明治4）に撮影された旧江戸城の写真のネガ原板。江戸城は幕末から荒廃が始まり、明治維新後は江戸時代の面影を失っていった。当時の太政官少史蜷川式胤（にながわのりたね）はその姿を目にし、写真で記録しようと太政官の許可を得て写真師横山松三郎に撮影を命じた。当時の写真はガラス板に感光剤を塗り、乾かないうちに撮影、現像するコロディオン湿板法。ネガには多くの修正が加えられ、空の部分には紙が貼られたり、黒く塗られたりしているものが多い。これはネガの画像を印画紙に焼き付ける際、空の部分に紙を貼り付け、建物と空との境界線を黒く塗りつぶしておくことで、空を白く、建物の形を明確に表現するためであった。Original negative of a photograph of the former Edo Castle taken in 1871. Edo Castle began to fall into disrepair toward the end of the Edo period, and after the Meiji Restoration, it lost its Edo period appearance. The Grand Council of State official at the time, Noritane Ninagawa, saw the castle and, with the permission of the Grand Council of State, ordered Shozaburo Yokoyama, a photographer, to take photographs of it in order to record its appearance in photographs. At that time, photography was based on the collodion wet plate method, in which a photosensitive agent was applied to a glass plate, and the image was taken and developed before it dried. Many modifications were made to the negatives, and many of the skies were papered or painted black. This was done so that when the negative image was burned onto photographic paper, paper was applied to the sky area and the border between the building and the sky was painted black, so that the sky would be white and the shape of the building would be clearly expressed.
- Data extracted from ToMuCo Tokyo Museum Collection by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture (Tōkyōto Rekishi Bunka Zaidan). Extracted January 21, 2022.
- 2024-12-10