JH/TRA/6/1/5/2 - [Japan 29/8/57-8/9/57 : publications, printed ephemera, etc.]

JH/TRA/6/1/5/2

Sub sub file

[Japan 29/8/57-8/9/57 : publications, printed ephemera, etc.]

1946
1955-1957

32 items Mixed

Contains material collected by, or presented to, JH during his visit to Japan with a UK parliamentary delegation. The contents include numerous picture postcards and commercially-produced photographs of views of Japan and Japanese cultural sites, together with a variety of other tourist ephemera such as silk-trimmed bookmarks; material relating to the Todaiji Temple, Nara [Great Temple of the East] and the figure of the Vairochana Buddha (Daibutsu); a picture postcard showing the artist Rakusan Tsuchiya at work in his studio [JH had became acquainted with Rakusan's work during a visit to Japan in 1935, see File JH/TRA/2/2]; published texts of the Japanese constitution and related documents; 'A General survey of the agriculture of Japan', Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, n.d.; printed cotton banner, depicting a Japanese businessman who is saying "...of course, Great Britain will import as much of this as we can send, and it's duty-free as long as she re-exports it as 'British' - no wonder Lancashire suffers".