Boutique de tir à l'arc dans les jardins sacrés du temple d'Asakusa à Tokyo

Félix Élie Régamey's 1877 painting of an archery range in the sacred gardens of the Asakusa Temple in Tokyo is one of the most important early Western documentary images of Japanese popular religious culture. The Asakusa Temple complex (Senso-ji) was and remains Tokyo's most visited religious site, surrounded by stalls, entertainment, and traditional activities including archery galleries. Régamey depicted not the exotic strangeness of Japan but its specific material and social textures — the actual appearance of a popular amusement within a sacred precinct. The Guimet Museum holds this within its Régamey collection as a document of the 1876 voyage that led directly to the museum's founding.

Régamey's observational approach gives the composition documentary specificity: the architectural elements of the archery range, the costumes of participants and onlookers, and the spatial setting within the temple gardens are rendered with accuracy. The palette would reflect the actual colors of the scene rather than orientalist invention.