Image No. cn00297

Postcard Data

Size: 140x91mm
Caption: Pagode du Roi des Enfers - View of the interior of a Pagoda.

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Publisher's Reference: 21

Printing Technique: Phototype
Color Nature: B&W
Postcard Particulars: Stereoscopic postcard / Printed in 1905 or later

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Image Data

Image Nature: Photograph
Image Author: L. Sans (Probable)
Creation Place: (Certain)

Topic: Inside the Temple of Hell

Action: Statues in several niches along the wall show scenes related to the Buddhist Hell, including tribunals with judge and demons to judge the dead.

Image Particulars: Type of scenes sometimes misinterpreted in the West as actual Chinese justice.