Teikoku kaigun no iyō /

帝国海軍の威容 /

"Photographic essay celebrating the training and early successes of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the start of the Second World War, consisting of a series of circa 70 full-page photos, interspersed with brief texts, showing sailors undergoing training, images of naval guns, battleships, and mi...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Tōkyō Nichinichi Shinbunsha, Ōsaka Mainichi Shinbunsha
Format:	Book
Language:	Japanese
Published:	Tōkyō : Tōkyō Nichinichi Shinbunsha, Shōwa 17 [1942]
Subjects:	World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, Japanese > Pictorial works. Japan. > Kaigun > Pictorial works. War photography > Japan > Pictorial works. Documentary photography > Japan > Pictorial works.

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Summary:	"Photographic essay celebrating the training and early successes of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the start of the Second World War, consisting of a series of circa 70 full-page photos, interspersed with brief texts, showing sailors undergoing training, images of naval guns, battleships, and military planes, operations in China, Java, Borneo, New Guinea, and the Philippines, and, most impressively, an extended account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, with many of the images dramatically composed in a highly propagandistic manner." - bookseller's description.
Item Description:	Daitōa sensō kaigun sakusen keika ichiranpyō (ji Shōwa 16-nen 12-gatsu 8-nichi itari Shōwa 17-nen 10-gatsu 31-nichi). Purchased for the Cushing Library/Ragan Military Collection by The Cushing Library.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : black and white illustrations ; 27 x 37 cm