The 1923 Tokyo Earthquake
Collection of photographs from the Great Kanto Earthquake of September 1, 1923.
Good Old Days Japan
Before World War II, amateur photographer Yoshimitsu Tashiro went around Japan
photographing scenes of daily life.
Ginza Story
One of the world’s great shopping streets, from its origin as the Tokugawa
silver mint to the present day.
Peter’s Japan
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Collection of postcards from 1900 to 1950
Ohara Institute for
Social Research Poster Exhibit
Pre-1945 posters of political candidates, labor and farmers’ movements, and
various other political causes.
Books on the Taisho and early Showa Eras:
Seidensticker, Edward. Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake. Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. ISBN 0-394-50730-4
Seidensticker, Edward. Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake. Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. ISBN 0-394-54360-2
Saga, Junichi, tr. Garry Evans. Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan, Kodansha International, 1990. ISBN 0-87011-988-5
Osugi, Sakae, tr. Byron K. Marshall. The Autobiography of Osugi Sakae. University of California Press, 1992. ISBN 0-520-07760-1
Sawamura, Sadako, tr. Norman E. Stafford and Yasuhiro Kawamura. My Asakusa: Coming of Age in Pre-War Tokyo. Tuttle Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-8048-2135-6
Nakano, Makiko, tr. Kazuko Smith. Makiko’s Diary: A Merchant Wife in 1910 Kyoto. Stanford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8047-2441-5
Hane, Mikiso, ed. Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Voices of Japanese Rebel Women. Pantheon Books, 1988. ISBN 0-679-72273-4
Yoshikawa, Eiji, tr. Edwin McClellan. Fragments of a Past, Kodansha International, 1992. ISBN 4-7700-2064-3