samoerai

Here's a matchbox cover celebrating the 2594th

Please tell me about the caption. How the date was specified? It was written "昭和十二年 奉祝 建國祭" on the board. "昭和十二年" means 1937, 2597th imperial year. And one more question. "建國祭" meant the celebration of the building of Japan, 11th of February. I'm not sure what exact day this photo was taken, but it might not be 6th of March.

The ancient photo has beautiful pale tone, and how wonderful harmony of colours, in the Japanese armour.

i am loving your photographs. I am truly interested on the japanes culture

Wonderful image and an original Felix Beato! It might help increase views if you tagged it with the English form for 'Samoerai' - 'Samurai'. ? I have cited the images and the Archive on my page about the (Flickr) Commons: www.shapesoftime.net/pages/viewpage.asp?uniqid=13280 Best wishes and thank you for contributing to the Commons project - it is a wonderful aid for teaching and learning.

@Shapesoftime Thanks for the compliments. I have added Samurai to the title of the image and to the tag list. If you have any other tags that you think are appropriate, please feel free to add them.

Simply amazing. Thanks for sharing this kind of photo. Is the first time i have the joy of see something like this.