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Tokyo From Atajo-Yama, Japan

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:37:29 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Though the disastrous earthquake of Sept., 1923, followed by tidal wave and fire practically destroyed Japan's great and beautiful capital, causing a property loss of $2,741,000,000, Tokyo is being rapidly rebuilt into one of the finest of modern cities. In the new city, residential districts are segregated from commercial and industrial districts. Six new avenues from 100 feet to 150 feet wide cut across the most crowded sections supplementing the old main thoroughfares, while more than one hundred new streets with a minimum width of 36 feet, replace the old narrow crooked lanes and streets. Fire-proof zones have been planned and the government is subsidizing the erection of fire-proof buildings.

Tokyo proper has a population of 2,036,000 while Greater Tokyo, following the plan of consolidating former suburbs, announced its population in August, 1925, as 3,859,674."

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Item Number: P217:set 051 005

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Spinning Cotton

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Cotton is not a native plant in Japan either. It is said that by chance some seeds were brought from India in the year 799 A.D. and being planted they grew well. Then the people learned, from the Chinese, again, how to clean, spin, and weave and thus another useful fabric was added to their wardrobes. the cotton spinning and weaving industries area now very important occupations in Japan. However, the native supply of the raw material is nothing like sufficient; therefore great quantities are brought from abroad, China, India, Egypt, and even the United States. But the Quantity of yarn and cloth produced is greater than is needed at home; consequently exporting these goods to the continent of Asia is one of Japan's most profitable trades.

Japan's cotton mills increased nearly 300 percent during the world war. The earthquake of 1923 gave the industry a set back but it has practically recovered from that and is today using nearly two million bales of cotton annually, three-tenths of which was shipped from America. In 1924 Japan exported manufactured cotton good to the amount of 150 million dollars."

Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides

Item Number: P217:set 060 044

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Geisha Giving Entertainment

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The geisha houses, rather humble, certainly unpretentious abodes, group themselves in certain quarters, and the hiring of the girls is done methodically through a central office. The hiring should be accomplished by the restaurant keeper or by the housewife as early in the afternoon as possible, but not after six in the evening, unless absolutely unavoidable. For the preparation of the Geisha is an elaborate affair from the wonderful coiling and adorning of her hair to the fit of her white, heelless shoes. They are taken in rickishas to the house of entertainment and carried home in the same way when all is over.

The ordinary examples of the fine arts that one meets in the homes of Japan are the pictorial scroll or Kakemono with a picture above three feet long and half the width that hangs in the place of honor--in a recess called the tokonoma, and possibly a bronze or pottery statuette standing in a low pedestal in the same recess. A fine vase of metal or else a wonderfully decorated sword often takes the place of the statuette. Whatever it may be, it is there to be judged on its merits free of all competition with others of its kind, for the good lady of the house, though she owns ever so many pictured scrolls or statuettes or vases, will only exhibit on of a kind at a time. No walls hung with scores of pictures or shelves, or an array of pedestals about the rooms, enter in other scheme of domestic decoration in Japan, In some of the of the wealthiest homes, particularly those of noblemen who have traveled abroad, a "Western parlor" may be found furnished sumptuously in European style, and on whose walls hangs oil paintings in gold frames bought in the course of residence in European capitals."

Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides

Item Number: P217:set 060 023

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Learning to Write

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "No such national furore for education has ever been seen elsewhere as that which has gripped the mind of Japan. Japan proper had a population of 59,138,900 as reported October 1, 1924. At the same time her school enrollment from kindergarten through the university was given as 8,221,615. Over a million and a quarter complete the elementary school work each year. There are sixteen colleges and universities, five being imperial universities. The largest of these -- Tokyo Imperial University-- had a student body of 5,283 and 414 faculty members in the autumn of 1924."

Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides

Item Number: P217:set 060 007

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Lotus, Kamakura

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Item Number: P217:set 060 049

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Small Summer Hotel At Kanazawa

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides

Item Number: P217:set 060 047

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Religion

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Religion is free in Japan, and in the religious world there is conspicuous friendliness between the members of different creeds and sects.

Shinto (the Way of the Gods) is the ancient native cult. It is divided into thirteen officially recognized sects. Shintoism originated in the combined spirit of ancestor worship and Imperial veneration and centers in its shrines. In 1924 there were 171,725 such shrines and priests to the number of 14,900. Buddhism had in the same year 71,750 temples, 181,100 priests and about fifty million followers. There are twelve sects or denominations embracing Christianity, with a total of 865 churches and a membership of 126,233."

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Item Number: P217:set 060 010

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Two Japanese Children

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides

Item Number: P217:set 060 038

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Kago Bearers

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This consists of a hammock swung from a bamboo pole that rests on the shoulders of the bearers. Observe the platform on top for baggage. This method of carrying is used in particular on roads too steep for rickishas. The kago or palanquin is the oldest style of carriage in Japan.

Educational affairs are generally controlled by the Department of Education, which consists of three bureaus of special education, general education and religious. The exceptions to this control are the Peers' School, various military and naval schools and colleges, Nautical School and Post and Telegraph School."

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Item Number: P217:set 060 006

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Monkeys on a Limb--17th Century Painting by Sosen

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "A Japanese picture is not painted simply for the sake of representative effect; it is part of a decorative scheme. A Japanese never shows more than one picture or one set of pictures at a time. If he has a large collection, he keeps them in his fireproof storeroom, and gives to each in turn a temporary place in the alcove recess. As it hangs there the eye must find equal pleasure in regarding it from every part of the room."

Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides

Item Number: P217:set 060 028

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Fujiyama from Omiya Village

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides

Item Number: P217:set 060 052

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God of Wind, Iyemitsu Temple, Nikko.

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This is a God of Shinto religion. Shinto has a great array of subsidiary gods--the elementary gods-- the elementary gods, fire, wind, thunder, water, with many home-keeping kindly deities who are invoked and honored with a thought, the seven gods of felicity, the god of good women, the god of the oven, the god of the fields, the rice god, and what not."

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Item Number: P217:set 060 012

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Another Temple Gate

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides

Item Number: P217:set 060 014

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Bridge of Osaka, Japan

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:37:29 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Osaka is a great commercial and industrial center and is one of the sixty harbors in Japan open to foreign trade. Although great quantities of goods pass through this harbor, its neighboring city Kobe, has a better harbor and excels as a seaport. In recent years Osaka has extended its corporate limits and the "Greater" Osaka now has a population of 2,132,600."

Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides

Item Number: P217:set 051 004

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Out-of-Door-Tea

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Tea service is a solemn rite, time-honored and royal. It is the test of elegance, of quiet dignity and repose. Gentle courtesy and exquisitely compliment are implied in the decorum of the elaborate tea service, which was amplified and emphasized by the old emperors. Incidentally, drinking is no silent art among the Japanese, and noisy swallowing is perfectly consistent with propriety."

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Item Number: P217:set 060 033

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Danjuro

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Danjuro the greatest actor, the Irving of Japan, in his famous role of Kangoneho."

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Item Number: P217:set 060 019

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Bizen Ware

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "In Bizen ware figures of mythical beings and animals as well as birds, fishes, etc., were modeled with a degree of plastic ability that can scarcely be spoken of in too high terms.

The Bizen kiln attained a great excellence at the end of the 14th century and the beginning of the 15th century. Japanese pottery is named usually from the province where manufactured. Such is Bizen ware. There are about 15 districts well known for their pottery."

Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides

Item Number: P217:set 060 026

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The Barrel Maker

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This is one of the important trades of Japan. The average wage of coopers is only about fifty cents a day."

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Item Number: P217:set 060 042

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A Geisha House

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "A Geisha House is not generally a large establishment-- six or seven to a dozen Geisha's and half as many musumes make it up. The mother or keeper is generally an old geisha, often a once celebrated dancer and entertainer, as one may guess fro the many middle-aged or aging men who will sit down beside her and swap stories with her about merry old times of other days."

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Item Number: P217:set 060 022

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Satsuma Faience

nobody@flickr.com (OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:29:02 -0700

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Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This Faience, or Fayence, is so called because it is made in Satsuma."

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Item Number: P217:set 060 027

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