My fascination with Nara and the Nara Hotel continues. Reception Room Reception Room Sitting Room Smoking Room Suite Room Sitting Room in Suite Dining Room Golf Course And finally, the view from the veranda.
Archive for the ‘Japan’ Category
The Nara Hotel
Posted in Golf, Japan, Postcards on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Tea and a Letter from the War
Posted in Japan, Postcards, Tea, War on April 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“O-koto-san receives a letter from her fiance at the war,” a postcard published before 1913 in Japan. You can see the entire set here. I’m not sure which war her fiance is writing home from; the Russo-Japanese War took place in 1905-06, but troops from Japan had been involved in China and Korea for years [...]
Tea in Kobe, 1905
Posted in Japan, Photography, Postcards, Tea on April 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Nara
Posted in Art, Japan, Photography, Postcards on March 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Trifecta
Posted in Dogs, Japan, Mail, Postcards on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A postcard that combines my fascination with Japan and my love of dogs and the post office: two children dressed as postal carriers in Japan, circa 1918.
Harold & Elizabeth Bibber in Japan
Posted in Art, Bells, Incense, Japan, Postcards, Religion, Tea on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I purchased a group of postcards and discovered that the person who bought them first, Elizabeth Bibber, had written notes on the backs, describing each scene. Elizabeth Bibber was the wife of Harold Bibber, a 1920 MIT graduate and an engineer with General Electric; he was assigned to the Tokyo office for four years beginning [...]
Nara Shrine
Posted in Japan, Postcards on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Kasuga Shrine, Nara
Posted in Art, Japan, Postcards on March 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A lovely postcard of the Kasuga Shrine at Nara. And almost as fascinating is the back, covered in tiny writing, mentioning Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Saigon. If only my French was up to a translation…
Nara Menu
Posted in Art, Food, Japan on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
And while I’m obsessing about Nara, here’s the cover of a dinner menu from a Japanese ocean liner circa 1934, picturing the five-story pagoda seen across Sarusawa Pond, the original pagoda built in 730 AD, the present one a replica built in 1429 AD. And here are two more views of the pagoda:
Nara
Posted in Bells, Japan, Postcards on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Seven postcard views of Nara, Japan, including another of the Great Bell.
