Postcard Tsunami 1911 Torpedo Boat
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. A torpedo boat was washed ashore. The postcard was sent to Alma Karlin by N.G., probably her Japanese student Mr. Nobuji from her time in London. The text of the correspondence is in English; the sender apologises for not replying for a long time to the letters and postcards she has sent him, “Dear Miss Karlin, I am very sorry to have kept you waiting for a reply to your most kind letter and the beautiful postcards, which I have had received long before, with best thanks but I beg you do not laugh at me. Yours very sincerely, N. G”. (CSB)
Material description: paper
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white print
Inscription: 明治四十四年七月廿六日拂暁ノ椿事（つなみ）水雷艇越中島陸上ニ打上ラル / Tsunami early morning of July 26, 1911, torpedo boat on Etchūjimi
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, HASEGAWA, Rei (ur.). 2016. Nihon teikoku no hyosho: seisei kioku keisho. Tokyo: Enishi shobô: 239., Azijske študije. 2017. 5 (21): 221.
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