Saishin Manshu shashincho [Latest Manchuria Photograph Album] ca 1934 Manchukuo ~ Kin'ichiro Yamazaki ~ Northeast China Pictorial

Title: Saishin Manshu shashincho [Latest Manchuria Photograph Album]

Author: Kin'ichiro Yamazaki

Description: Publisher's cloth over boards with yapp edges and a pictorial cover stamped in gilt, orange, white and blue. String tied, two-hole binding. Covers show light wear; minor soiling on rear cover. Pictorial endpapers. Interior is clean and unmarked. One of the text pages has a short closed tear. Illustrated with 86 numbered plates (seven in color), interleaved with descriptive text in Japanese and English. Oblong. 5.5 x 8 inches. Circa 1934.

The album, which opens with a portrait of Puyi, the last Emperor of China and the recently crowned Emperor of Manchukuo, presents a photographic guide to Manchuria in the 1930s. It includes images of cities, commercial and city centers, street scenes, prominent institutional buildings, war monuments, the Imperial Tomb at Mukden, temples, the Russian Orthodox cathedral at Harbin, railway stations, mining operations and ironworks, port scenes, coastal views, artillery battery sites, and hot spring resorts.

Approximately 35 of the 86 images show scenes from the major centers of Dairen (Dalian), Port Arthur (Lushunkou), Mukden (Shenyang), Hsingking (Changchun), and Kharbin (Harbin), with the rest from other locations across the country.

Binding: Tied boards
Condition: Very Good+

Year: 1934

Keywords: Manchuria, Manchukuo, China, Northeast China, 1930s, Thirties, pictorial,