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Arts & Culture

“Buying New Year decorations”, c .1920.
Monpe (plain trouser) fashion, c. 1940.
Maruzen Book Store, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, c. 1920.
“Princess Turandot”, Takarazuka Revue advertising postcard, Tokyo, 1934.
“Eating with chopsticks”, c. 1910.
Japanese quail (uzura), c. 1920.
Amezaiku [sugar sculpture] street vendor, c. 1930.
Comparisons of Daily Newspaper Circulations, Worldwide, c. 1930.
“Doll-maker”, c. 1930.
“Year of the Tiger”, New Year’s postcard, 1938.
“A fishing place in Awaji”, Hyogo Prefecture, c. 1920.
Kabuki stage makeup (kumadori), c. 1930.
Butokuden (Military Arts Hall), Suwayama Park, Kobe, c. 1910.
Japanese master swordsman Hibino “Raifu” Masayoshi, c. 1910.
“Ladies’ hair-dresser”, c. 1930.
“Tokyo Matsuri” advertising postcard, 1933.
“Emperor of Japan”, c. 1905.
“Year of the Ox”, New Year’s postcard, 1937.
Daijo Of “Kanadehon chushingura” (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), c. 1910.
“Kanto Festival at Akita City”, c. 1960.
Lafcadio Hearn’s home, Matsue, Japan, c. 1950.
Takarazuka Revue, “Parisette”, c. 1930.
The Kawakami Theater performing “Okan” at Meiji-za, Tokyo, c. 1905.

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