Postcard Tsunami 1911 Fukagawa
A postcard with a snapshot of a natural disaster in Japan: the damage caused by the tsunami in the old part of Tokyo in July 1911.
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Workshop / factory / publisher: 銀座土方屋製
Place of manufacture: Tokyo
Material description: paper
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white print
Inscription: 明治四十四年七月廿六日午前二時 海嘯ノ為メ達磨船深川黒船橋通リエ吹上ゲラル、、、/ After the tsunami on July 26, 1911, at two in in the morning, a wooden boat on the road Kurofunebashi dōri, Fukagawa
Date of correspondence: September 11, 1911, London
Addressee: Miss Alma Karlin, Cilli, Laibacherstrasse No 6, Steiermark, Austria
Sender: N. G. (?)
No. of parts: 1
Current owner: Celje Regional Museum
Date of the last acquisition: 1957–1960
Last acquisition method: donation
Previous owners and periods of ownership: Alma M. Karlin, Thea Schreiber Gammelin, Celje Regional Museum
Object condition, handling and damage: well preserved
Press releases: PARK, Mijeoung in HASEGAWA, Rei (ur.). 2016. Nihon teikoku no hyosho: seisei kioku keisho. Tokyo: Enishi shobô: 240., Azijske študije. 2017. 5(21): 221.
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