PICTURES OF JAPANESE AND RUSSIAN MILITARY FIGURES AND KABUKI ACTORS.
Brightly coloured woodblock sheet showing head and shoulder portraits of two Russian and 22 Japanese military commanders and kabuki actors, each portrait in a uniform size square, designed to be cut out and made into a menko card by laying the portrait onto a small piece of card; [Tsukamoto Jusaburo]. Nagoya. Meiji 37 [1904]. *The military figures are the Japanese commanders and heroes of the war which include Admiral Togo Heihachiro (third from right, top row) and General Oyama Iwao (first from right, top row). The two western figures are the commander of the Russian Pacific Fleet, Stepan Makarov and the commander of the Russian force in Manchuria, Aleksei Kuropatkin. [David Levine purchased this item from Asia Bookroom, whose catalogue information is used here]. Item #161457
Price: $500.00