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43-51: Buildings
The Pennino Collection, 43-51: Buildings
Permission to use the Pennino Collection
If photos are used for non-commercial educational purposes such as use of the photos in class lectures, students’ presentations, and academic conference presentations, no permission is necessary. Please credit the photos with the sentence: “From the Walter A. Pennino Postwar Japan Photo Collection, courtesy of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.” However if the photos are planned to be used in books, newspapers, documentaries, films, and other forms of media and print, the users must write to the Center for Japanese Studies to request permission. In the request, please explain the topic and the type of media/print.
Send inquiries or requests to:
Pennino Photo Collection
Center for Japanese Studies, Moore 216
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: 808-956-2664
Fax: 808-956-2666
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Photo ID 43
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Diet Building
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CAPTION: The Diet Building (Kokkai Gijidō) stands in contrast to the row of shacks and rubble.
ADDITIONAL INFO: Photos of the Diet Building taken immediately after the war show that it was severely damaged by the air-raid. In this photo, however, most of the damage and burn marks seem to have been repaired. Even so, the area immediately in front of the Diet Building looks much as it did in the photos taken right after the war.
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Photo ID 44
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Boy in a Shanty 1
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CAPTION: A boy crouches in the door of a shanty with the words, ‘sacchū/shōdoku’ or bug extermination
(disinfectant) written on one of the walls.
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ADDITIONAL INFO: Immediately after the war, with large portions of Tokyo damaged by fire, temporary shelters were built throughout the city. Although the authorities had plans to rebuild the city in an orderly fashion, more immediate housing needs took priority. The number of temporary houses was so great, that several years after the war many people in Tokyo still lived in shelters such as this. In the background, however, a house under construction shows progress towards a restored city.
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Photo ID 45
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Boy in a Shanty 2
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CAPTION: A boy stands in the entrance of a shanty.
ADDITIONAL INFO: In between the two boys there are piles of what look like roof tiles.
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Photo ID 46
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Temple and Playground
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CAPTION: A foreign boy is playing on a slide in front of a statue and a Buddhist temple.
ADDITIONAL INFO: The boy on the slide looks like the same foreign boy from the photo, “Craftsman 5.” The statue partially hidden by the tree might be Kannon-sama or Goddess of Mercy.
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Photo ID 47
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Occupied and Building and Old Houses 1
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CAPTION: A stately stone building flying the Stars and Stripes dominates the smaller, wooden structures in front.
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ADDITIONAL INFO: The name and location of the white building is unknown, but since it flies an American flag, it was most likely a building that the GHQ or another American organization occupied during this period. The smaller buildings in front may be factories of some sort because of their smoke stacks and location along what looks like a canal. The majority of waterways in Tokyo are located east of the imperial palace, but as several hundred buildings were occupied by the US, it is difficult to make any guesses as to where this photo was taken.
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Photo ID 48
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Occupied Building and Old Houses 2
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CAPTION: Another view of the imposing stone structure.
ADDITIONAL INFO: At the very front of this photo there seems to be a garden. Even as late as 1949, there were still food shortages and holes in the distribution system so many Tokyo residents took it upon themselves to supplement their rations by growing their own vegetables.
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Photo ID 49
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Monks and a Temple
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CAPTION: Four monks in travel outfits are lined up. They may be mendicant or so-called “begging” priests (takuhatsusō).
ADDITIONAL INFO: Although the building is possibly a Shinto shrine since ropes and paper hang under the roof, the monks look as if they are Buddhist.
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Photo ID 50
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Big Gate at a Shinto Shrine
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CAPTION: Shrine visitors stroll leisurely through the huge shrine gate (tori’i), probably, in front of Meiji Shrine (Meiji Jingu) in Tokyo.
ADDITIONAL INFO: This tori’i looks like one of the tori’i(s) at Meiji Jingu. See Meiji Shrine’s tori’i(s) on a website.
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Photo ID 51
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Having Lunch at a Temple
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CAPTION: A couple eat their boxed lunch (obentō) behind an old building, which is probably a Buddhist temple.
ADDITIONAL INFO: There is no clue as to the location. The temple could be a famous one in Tokyo or the Kanto area. The woman is in a kimono with a Japanese-style hairdo.
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Permission to use the Pennino Collection
If photos are used for non-commercial educational purposes such as use of the photos in class lectures, students’ presentations, and academic conference presentations, no permission is necessary. Please credit the photos with the sentence: “From the Walter A. Pennino Postwar Japan Photo Collection, courtesy of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.” However if the photos are planned to be used in books, newspapers, documentaries, films, and other forms of media and print, the users must write to the Center for Japanese Studies to request permission. In the request, please explain the topic and the type of media/print.
Send inquiries or requests to:
Pennino Photo Collection
Center for Japanese Studies, Moore 216
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: 808-956-2664
Fax: 808-956-2666
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