山下 富吉 YAMASHITA Takayoshi.
青島寫真帖 Souvenir Tsingtao.
Tsingtao, Showa 16, [1941].
Oblong 8vo, ff. [2], [34, with 41 halftone plates], [2, colophon]; each image captioned in Japanese and English below, occasional annotations in Chinese, and blank verso of final plate profusely annotated in Chinese with a Chinese medicine recipe; in original black wrappers, tied with a ribbon, English and Japanese title and illustration of Chinese gateway to Seaside Park in Tsingtao on upper wrapper; slightly worn at edges, but a good copy.
A Japanese souvenir of Tsingtao (Qingdao) published during the second period of Japanese occupation of the city.
Having overturned German rule in the 1914 Siege of Tsingtao, the Japanese had held control of the city until 1922. Some of the images, such as a view of the Monument in Commemoration of the war between Japan and Germany, directly recall this conflict. Other plates, including the multiple views of Japanese schools and colleges as well as the Japanese built railways, allude to the concentrated programme of building and construction that took place in the region under Japanese occupation.
