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Film and Photography gallery 2: picture genres
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imperial portraits
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 Portrait
of the Meiji Emperor. Photographer unknown (middle Meiji Period).
From Japan Photographers Association, A Century of Japanese
Photography (London: Hutchinson, 1981) 96.
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 Portrait
of the Taishô Emperor. Photographer unknown. 1912.
From A Century of Japanese Photography, 97.
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Portrait
of the Shôwa Emperor. Photographer unknown. 1928.
From A Century of Japanese Photography, 97.
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 Photograph
taken at the first meeting between Emperor Hirohito (the Shôwa
Emperor) and General Douglas MacArthur on September 27, 1945.
From John Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World
War II (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1999) 294.
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group portraits
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Group
Portrait: The women's class of the Iwate Teachers' School. Nara
Photograph Studio, 1914.
From A Century of Japanese Photography, 116.
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Group portrait:
the Emperor (center front) and naval officers and men on the flagship
Nagato, 1929.
From A Century of Japanese Photography, 118.
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"bromides"
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Photographs
of actors and actresses were called "buromaido" or "bromides."
A young woman looks at photographs for sale at a "buromaido-ya."
The practice of purchasing bromides is related to the older practice
of buying ukiyo-e prints of famous actors. Photograph by Kimura
Ihee, 1933.
From Tanuma Takyoshi, ed., Kimura Ihee no shôwa
(Tokyo: Chikuma Shobô, 1990) 4.
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photojournalism and photo documents
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Documentary:
Japanese soliders killed in the battle of Tashihkiao (Russo-Japanese
War). Ogura Kenji, 1904.
From A Century of Japanese Photography, 133.
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Documentary:
Beheading of a spy on the outskirts of Kaiyuan (Russo-Japanese
War). Photographer unknown. 1905.
From A Century of Japanese Photography, 134.
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Documentary:
Corpses of Chinese soldiers in anking immediately following the
capture of the city. Mainichi newspaper, December 13, 1937.
From A Century of Japanese Photography, 339.
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Documentary:
Bombardment of Osaka by B-29s. Yamagami Entarô, 1945.
From A Century of Japanese Photography, 354.
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propaganda
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"Fight
to the Bitter End." A Composite photo made from originals
by Kanamaru Shigene. First displayed as a billboard in 1943.
From A Century of Japanese Photography, 332.
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other picture genres: kamishibai
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Children crowd around a kamishibai or picture card show.
Photo by Kimura Ihee, 1932. (see manga
gallery one)
Kimura Ihee no shôwa 5.
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other picture genres: Wartime political cartoons
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 Hidezô
Kondô, cover illustration for the February 1945 issue of
Manga, the officially sanctioned wartime cartoon magazine.
From Frederik K. Schodt, Manga! Manga! the world of Japanese
comics (Tokyo and New York: Kodansha, 1983) 58.
(see manga gallery one for
more on prewar manga history)
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American and British wartime political cartoons of Japan
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 Cartoonist
unidentified. Cartoon in the April 1943 New York Times,
captioned "Let the punishment fit the crime" (a quote
from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado) in response to
the execution of captured American fliers.
From John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the
Pacific War (New York: Pantheon Books, 1986) 185.
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 Cartoonist
unidentified. British cartoon reprinted in a mid-1923 issue of
the New York Times Magazine.
Dower, War Without Mercy 187.
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 Cartoonist
unidentified. Cartoon in the U.S. Marine monthly Leatherneck
from March 1945.
Dower, War Without Mercy 185.
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