Illustration - Aravis Range

Illustration - Aravis Range

HAUTE-SAVOIE (74) MASSIF AND COL DES ARAVIS PASS LOCATED AT 1486M, THE CHAPEL OF ARAVIS IS A CATHOLIC PLACE OF WORSHIP DEDICATED TO SAINT ANNE FOUNDED IN 1624 BY PIERRE-FRANCOIS DE BELLETOUR, LORD OF FLUMET Photo by Jarry Tripelon/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Aravis Range

Illustration - Aravis Range

HAUTE-SAVOIE (74) MASSIF AND COL DES ARAVIS PASS LOCATED AT 1486M, THE CHAPEL OF ARAVIS IS A CATHOLIC PLACE OF WORSHIP DEDICATED TO SAINT ANNE FOUNDED IN 1624 BY PIERRE-FRANCOIS DE BELLETOUR, LORD OF FLUMET Photo by Jarry Tripelon/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Aerial Rome - Italy

Illustration - Aerial Rome - Italy

ITALY - ROMA - VATICAN - INTERIOR OF ST. PETER'S BASILICA - PHOTO POINT 14 : IN THE CENTER OF THE TRANSEPT, THE BALDACHIN, MADE IN 1624 BY BERNINI. CAST WITH BRONZE INITIALLY DECORATING THE PEDIMENT OF THE PANTHEON OF ROME, ITS HEIGHT IS 29 METERS. THE TWIST GIVEN BY THE ARTIST TO THE IMMENSE COLUMNS IS REPUTED TO RECALL THE VERY FORM OF THE COLUMN WHERE JESUS WAS BOUND BEFORE BEING CRUCIFIED. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - Aerial Rome - Italy

Illustration - Aerial Rome - Italy

ITALY - ROMA - VATICAN - INTERIOR OF ST. PETER'S BASILICA - PHOTO POINT 14 : IN THE CENTER OF ST. PETER'S BASILICA, THE PAPAL ALTAR AND BALDACHIN, MADE IN 1624 BY BERNINI AND CONSIDERED THE LARGEST BRONZE STRUCTURE IN THE WORLD. CAST WITH THE METAL ORIGINALLY ADORNING THE PEDIMENT OF THE PANTHEON OF ROME, ITS HEIGHT IS 29 METERS. ABOVE, THE CUPOLA OF THE BASILICA BY MICHELANGELO IN 1547. WITH ITS DOUBLE CAP, THE INNER DIAMETER OF THE DOME MEASURES 42 METERS, ITS INNER HEIGHT IS 92 METERS AND ITS HEIGHT TO THE TOP OF THE CROSS IS 136 METERS. THIS DOME HAS SERVED AS A MODEL FOR OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE WORLD, SUCH AS THE DOME OF ST. PAUL IN LONDON (1675), THAT OF THE INVALIDES IN PARIS (1680-1691) AND THAT OF THE CAPITOL IN WASHINGTON (1794-1817). Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

Foreign investors turn around failing Japanese business

Foreign investors turn around failing Japanese business

TOKYO, Japan - The Shiroganeya, a well-known Japanese ryokan, built in 1624, is under reconstruction in the city of Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture.

Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine

Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine

View of Wakamiya Shrine from the east. The Jogu Romon (upper shrine gate) and cloister are visible above. The roof thatched with bark shingles was rebuilt in 1624. The upper shrine, constructed in the early Edo Period, was destroyed by fire in 1821 and reconstructed with a bronze roof in 1828. Wakamiya Shrine and Jogu Romon are both Important Cultural Assets. The date of the photograph is unknown.==Date:unknown, Place:Kamakura, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number93‐36‐0]

A girl playing the shamisen

A girl playing the shamisen

The shamisen lute originated in Okinawa as the jamisen. A musician named Nakanokoji of Sakai near Osaka remodeled the jamisen around 1570, and Yanagawa and Yatsuhashi established the shamisen as a musical instrument between 1624 and 1644. It was an easy instrument for young women. Two kinds of music were composed for the shamisen: narratives and songs.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number68‐15‐0]

A shrine in Kamakura

A shrine in Kamakura

Wakamiya Shrine is also depicted in photograph #4744. Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu Shrine was established at the site of present-day Wakamiya Shrine in 1180. The building in this photograph is the one rebuilt in 1624 and now registered as an Important Cultural Asset. Thatched previously with bark shingles, the roof was covered in bronze after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. This photograph may have been taken by Stillfried.==Date:unknown, Place:Kamakura, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number64‐45‐0]