Author: Yūshin Ayaoka (有真綾岡).
Subject: Sōrintō (双輪塔).
Series: Nice views of Nikkō (nikkō shōkei, 日光勝景).
Series number: 5.
Genre: meisho-e (名所絵), fūkei-ga (風景画).
Size: large (ōban, 大判).
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon (秋山武右衛門).
Period: c. 1892.
Trimmed: no
Backed: no
Code: YSA01002
Condition: very good condition. Color is still pretty clear and vivid with good saturation. There are not
remarkable
stains nor wrinkles. Any sign of fixing.
A sōrintō (alternate rings tower) is a kind of short pagoda consisting only of a pole and a sōrin on top of
it.
A sōrin is a stone or wooden made vertical shaft, composed by different sections (or rings), each one with a
symbolic
meaning, which can be observed on the top of any Japanese pagoda.
So a sōrintō actually lacks the pagoda itself (the building as we know) which is simply replaced, then
simbolized by
the vertical shaft.