A black and white landscape photograph of the torri (shrine gate) at Itsukushima Shrine. The photograph has been taken from the sea, looking inland, with water occupying the foreground. The torri appears to the left of the image, with its base submered. The one-storey buildings of the shrine cane be seen on the shore the right of torri, further back. Wooded hillsides rise behind the buildings. Original caption (typed, beneath the photograph): 'MIYAJIMA'.