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Description:
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Japanese postcards, depicting landscape views, scenes of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, trades and occupations, and women and children. Additional topics in the collection are emperors, Westerners in Japan, plants, Japanese gardens outside Japan, decorated cards and ship cards. Cards with views of Yokohama and Tokyo predominate, but all except two of the 47 prefectures are represented. There are no any pre-WW II cards from Akita or Okinawa; nor are there any from the occupied territories, with the exception of Dairen and Port Arthur. |
