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Japanese Troops - Vintage Photo 1938

1938

This Supplies for the Japanese troops is a b/w photographic print on polished paper by Wide World Photos (England). With stamp of agency and stereotype in German on the back...

Japanese Troops at Mongolian-Chinese Border is a b/w photographic print on polished paper by Keystone (Paris).  Stamp of agency and stereotype in French on the back.  Very fine condi...

This Victory of Japan on Hankau front is a b/w photograph by Atlantic-Photo taken on October 27, 1938. It is a photographic print on polished paper with stamp and stereotype in Germa...

Soldiering is an original black and white photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer in 1930s in Italy during Fascism. With the stamp of "Gherlone, Torino" on the rear. Good co...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph. In the countryside near Paris, France, April 1926. A soldier in uniform poses in front of the ruins of a house destroyed...

Propaganda photography in China Argentic

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. The International Autumn Fair in Lyon, France, 16th of March 1927. The crowd rushes to the entrance of The Internationa...

Foreign Soldiers from Five Countries at the Port of Yokohama Color woodcut triptych, c. 1860's Signed in the block lower left corner Signed: "Ichimosai Yoshitora ga" Condition: Mounted to a rose colored silk backing (stable) Staining (visible) in the joining of the right and center sheets Colors very slightly faded Image size: 15 3/8 x 31 3/8 inches (triptysch sheets joined to make one print) The 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa opened Japan to the West. Curiosity about the never-before-seen foreigners spurred a market in Yokohama-e (Yokohama prints), named for the area to which foreign dignitaries and merchants were confined. Yoshitora became one of the best known and most active artists of the Yokohama-e school. Utagawa Yoshitora (歌川 芳虎) was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers who was active from about 1850 to about 1880. He was born in Edo (modern Tokyo), but neither his date of birth nor date of death is known. However, he was the oldest pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi who excelled in prints of warriors, kabuki actors, beautiful women, and foreigners (Yokohama-e). He may not have seen any of the foreign scenes he depicted. Yoshitora was prolific: he produced over 60 print series and illustrated over 100 books. In 1849 he produced an irreverent print called Dōke musha: Miyo no wakamochi ("Funny Warriors—Our Ruler's New Year's Rice Cakes"), which depicts Oda Nobunaga, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi...