File:Panorama of Edo bw.jpg

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English: 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 or 1866
date QS:P,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1866-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Author
Felice Beato (1832–1909)  wikidata:Q318352
 
Felice Beato
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Felix Beato
Description Italian photographer, 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, Category:Austria-Hungary Florence, Italy
Work period 19th century
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Istanbul; Myanmar; Yokohama (1863–1877) Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q318352
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