24 Unused Hand Colored Postcards, young apprentice Japanese Geisha & Japanese Views of Kobe, Yokohama, Tokyo by [Japan; Postcards] - 1905

Japan, 1910. 2 postcards, printed and with coloring. Undated and one with undivided back, the other with; light wear; in very good condition.. Postcards. Very Good.

Japan Front printed in black & blue ink; reverse with handwritten message in English; undivided back. Light wear; a little edge-darkened; in very good condition.. Postcard. Very Good.

Japan, 1910. 5 postcards and photographs, black and white. Three are identified Post Card with undivided backs: The Honganji Buddhist Temple Tokyo, Sheep Raising Near Mt. Fuji and A Tiny Devotee of Clasical Music. The other two images are of a Japanese woman in Western dress and three Japanese women, two in Western garb and one in kimono, names on back of image in pencil of Makiko, Hideko, Yukiko. Undated and circa 1930s. Slight wear; in very good condition.. Postcards. Very Good.

Tokyo, Japan: Japanese Government Railways, 1935. 8 postcards, printed in either sepia or green ink. Horyu-ji, near Nara; Nagoya Castle; Odori dance; Yomei-mon gate; Nara deer park; Horikiri iris gardens; Mt. Aso volcano; & Daibutsu. Divided backs; light wear to cards; envelope tips & edges worn; in very good condition.. Postcards. Very Good.

United States, 1935. The same photo, one card printed in black & the other in blue ink; divided backs; one cent stamp era. Printed by Eagle Post Card View Co., NY. Light wear; a little edge-darkened; in very good condition.. Postcard. Very Good.

Japan: No Publisher, 1915. Including: The Tsuragaoka-torii, Kamakura, (Protected officially); The Daibutsu, the grand Buddha; The Shariden at the Engakuji Temple; The volume of pictures, explaining the origin of the Taemano-mandara; The statue of Buddha in his sermon; The statue of Shaka Buddha, the chief object of worship at the Gokarakuji temple; The Arai-No Emma; The Statue of Hojo Tokiyori; The Idol of the Jizoson boddhisattva; The portrait of the boddhisattva Kokoozo (painted by Kose Kanaoka); The statue of Uyesugi Shigefusa; The Mask of Aku; all noted as 'protected officially'; text in Japanese and English; final leaf with additional and untranslated Japanese text; approx. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" size, with the mounting edges, the group slightly larger in its packet; original gray and black paper covers, side sewn with red silk cording; wear, soiling, corner chip to bottom corner of front cover; cards clean, postally unused and in very good condition; interesting ephemeral travel… Read More

Japan, 1938. Hardcover. Very good overall. Album comprising 100 cards, with embossed illustration of a gun toting soldier on the cover and with a map printed inside the cover showing Japanese territory in China. The postcards are mostly colored artist postcards, many stamped and mailed. Presumably put together by a Japanese soldier with the occupation force in China. Fortunately, the album consists mainly of artists' cards of places, an doesn't have any of the images of atrocities committed against the conquered Chinese. Illustrated printed color postcards include many of military life: cavalry units, soldiers bathing in hot tubs, soldiers relaxing in courtyards, a soldier standing in city street, soldiers at drill, and a seaplane. One card with printed signature T. M. Kauri [?]; another signed T. Hazma, and dated 1938. Other printed color post card subjects include landscapes both Japanese and Chinese, Mt. Fuji, temples, temple gates, Japanese beauties (one waving a Japanese flag), lake and… Read More