Dear Visitor

Recently, I purchased this 'new' old book on Japan - it's a paperback book published in 1923
by French publisher "Berger-Levrault, éditeurs / Paris - 136, Boulevard Saint Germain"

The title of this book is "Le Japon Souriant - ses samouraďs, ses bonzes - ses geishas" (Smiling Japan
 - its Samurai, its monks - its geisha)
the author is Robert Chauvelot. As it happens the book is in really good condition too, no foxing and
little or no pages that turned brown. It's a travelogue by a French writer visiting Japan in the Taisho
period (early 1920's). A lot of travel literature has been produced prior and after that year but what made
me buy this book is because of it's photograpic reproductions and a lot of 'cute' clipart by contemporary
artists, don't ask me which ones... there are no credits in this book, a lot of the clipart seems to come
straight from Hokusai manga though. So without further ado, here's a selection...

Happy clicking !




Photo's

japon_cover.jpg (142534 bytes)

                           

jiu_jitsu.jpg (86373 bytes)
Two 'Jiu-jitsu' champions

chindonya.jpg (72549 bytes)
A 'chindonya'
in Tokyo

ainu.jpg (55065 bytes)
An 'Ainu' chieftain and his wife


                                                                                              

fujiyama.jpg (86498 bytes)
Countryside
around Fujiyama		 inari.jpg (86442 bytes)
Kyoto,
Inari festival		 kameido.jpg (89746 bytes)
Tokyo, Kameido
Wisteria blossoms		 karahashi.jpg (68248 bytes)
'Seta-no-karahashi'
bridge		 Kobe.jpg (82296 bytes)

Kobe
lunch.jpg (67985 bytes)
A family eating
lunch		 maiko.jpg (82157 bytes)
Kyoto,
maiko		 teracce.jpg (97666 bytes)

Terrace building		 Yokohama_canal.jpg (88316 bytes)
A Yokohama
canal		 yűjô.jpg (77783 bytes)
Tokyo,
Yoshiwara




Korea

'au pays du matin calme'
'in the land of the morning calm'

Pusan_Korea.jpg (63689 bytes)
Pusan, Korea
a farmer's wife,
a porter and a trader		 Seoul_Korea.jpg (72992 bytes)
Seoul, Korea
the Imperial Lotus
Palace		 Oxen_Korea.jpg (72721 bytes)
Korea
oxen used for
carrying loads

hashi1.jpg (14707 bytes) hashi2.jpg (12675 bytes)

Two postcards depicting the similar
theme - in this case some kind of
folk dance from Hashidate linked
to a bridge (?)

imperial.jpg (36041 bytes) peacock.jpg (37102 bytes)

Two postcards both featuring the Imperial Hotel designed by Frank Loydd Wright
and completed just before the tragic earthquake of 1923.
The Imperial Hotel was demolished - apart from the lobby - and was replaced
shortly before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics by the 'New Imperial'.
The lobby was torn down and has been built up again outside Tokyo.

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