It’s easy to plunge for stereotypes when you’re thinking about Imperial Japan,particularly when the Internet offers plenty of dreamy, romanticized, and hand colored photos of geishas,samurais, craftsmen, or peasants,all wearing traditional clothes and posing in medieval scenes. This set of color postcards, all issued in the first decades of the 20th century, and show a different pre-war Japan. Read more...
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