Old Tokyo

"Into this loyalty is born the protective instinct of the ant who works and toils unto the end fo the good of all, without thought for individual existence."

– The Happy Hina Matsuri: Japan’s Festival of Dolls, by Charlotte Lehnhausen, Japan: Overseas Travel Magazine, February 1930

“In the higher, or nationalistic sense, it represents a loving appreciation of the thoughtful care given by the Emperor to his ‘children’; in the lesser conception it embraces the family as a unit.

“There is no festival given in Japan that brings more joy to the hearts of little Japanese girls than the Girls’ Doll Festival, Hinamatsuri, for this time their very own. The festival is celebrated each March 3rd and is held according to a set form and the ceremonial arrangement of miniature dolls.

“The Girl’s Festival” (Hinamatsuri), Kyoto, c. 1960. | Old Tokyo "There is no festival given in Japan that brings more joy to the hearts of little Japanese girls than the Girls' Doll Festival, Hinamatsuri, for this time their very own. The festival is celebrated ea...

“The Girl’s Festival”, Kyoto, c. 1960.

Among the exposition’s sponsors were the Mainichi Shimbun, the country’s largest newspaper, whose courier airplane (J-BANC, a Breda Ba.33) is seen overflying the fairgrounds at Ueno Park with the new Diet Building and Mount Fuji visible in the distance.

The exposition celebrated not only the Meiji Restoration and the Charter Oath of 1868 (which outlined the main aims and the course of action to be followed toward national modernization) but also the recent completion of the nation’s new parliamentary assembly building, the Imperial Diet.

Exposition celebrating the 70th anniversary of the “Meiji Assembly”, Ueno Park, Tokyo, 1938. | Old Tokyo See also: Imperial Diet Building, Kasumigaseki, c. 1890-1940. “Emperor of Japan”, c. 1905. "The coup d'etat of January 3, 1868, which abolished the Tokugawa Shogunate and established a new provisional...

Exposition advertising postcard commemorating the 70th anniversary of the “Meiji Assembly”, Ueno Park, Tokyo, 1938.

The “Asia Express”, Shougaku Sannensei Manga advertising postcard, Manchukuo, c. 1935. | Old Tokyo "No single object epitomized Manchukuo's encounter with modernity more vividly and embodied its modernist urge more succinctly than the Asia Express, 'the last word in modern steam railway transportat...

... and the Asia Express offered even faster service in Manchukuo:

www.oldtokyo.com/the-asia-exp...

C55 Streamlined Locomotive and Mt. Fuji, c. 1940. | Old Tokyo See also: J.G.R./J.N.R. Steam Locomotive Evolution, 1872-1948. J.N.R. Tokaido Main Line Limited Express commemorative advertising postcard, October 1958. "Streamlining was tried on the Japanese Govern...

These could do the run in ~6 hours @ 60 mph in 1940:

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" It aimed for the preservation of traditional Budo [‘Martial Way’] and the nobility associated with Samurai culture. The Butoku Kai was the first official and premier martial arts institution sanctioned by the government of Japan."

- Wikipedia

“The Dai Nippon Butoku Kai [“Greater Japan Martial Virtue Society”] was first established in 1895 at Kyoto under the authority of the Japanese Government and with the endorsement of Meiji Emperor, to ‘solidify, promote, and standardize martial disciplines and systems’ throughout Japan.

Dai Nippon Butoku Kai [“Greater Japan Martial Virtue Society”], Akita branch, 1906. | Old Tokyo See also: Butokuden (Military Arts Hall), Suwayama Park, Kobe, c. 1910. "The Dai Nippon Butoku Kai ["Greater Japan Martial Virtue Society"] was first established in 1895 at Kyoto under the authority o...

Dai Nippon Butoku Kai [“Greater Japan Martial Virtue Society”], Akita Prefecture branch, 1906.

The R&D needed for the development of the 151-series trains used for the limited express (illustrated on the postcard) would be important toward the introduction of the Shinkansen (“Bullet Train”) in 1964 after which the “Kodama” name was transferred to the faster Shinkansen.

The electrically-powered “Kodama” express trains did just that — reduced the travel time between Tokyo and Osaka from 12 hours to just over 6 hours between the two cities, making it possible to make a round-trip in one day, hence the name ‘Kodama’ (‘echo’).

After the end of the Pacific War, the national railroad began to seriously research and develop various means to increase the speeds of its railroads.

J.N.R. Tokaido Main Line Limited Express commemorative advertising postcard, October 1958. | Old Tokyo See also: Tokaido Main Line “Kodama”, c. 1960. C55 Streamlined Locomotive and Mt. Fuji, c. 1940. Tokaido Main Line Railway, c. 1930. "On July 21, 1959, the M.U. electric streamliner Kodama set the wor...

J.N.R. Tokaido Main Line Limited Express commemorative advertising postcard, 1958, announcing the introduction of “Kodama”, “Tsubame”, “Fuji” and “Hato” high-speed express service on the Tokaido Main Line between Tokyo & Osaka on October 1, 1958.

– Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923, by Gennifer Weisenfeld, 2012

“The primitive structures became a vivid symbol of basic human existence shorn of the extraneous trappings of modern life, and for some on the political left, they even symbolized the potential for radical social transformation out of the ashes of the calamity.”

“… Barracks were concentrated in the capital’s low city, in the areas most heavily damaged by the earthquake. One of the largest assemblages of barracks was erected in the grounds around the Imperial Palace.

"The term barakku was used broadly after the quake to refer to the diversity of structures that included ephemeral tentlike shelters and huts of iron sheet metal for refugees

“[M]any earthquake survivors had to reside in makeshift temporary shelters known as barracks (barakku), which figured prominently in the picturing of daily life in the aftermath of the disaster.

Earthquake refugee camp on the Imperial Palace plaza, Tokyo, 1923. | Old Tokyo See also: 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake “Earthquake photography”, 1923. Showa Emperor Tours Rebuilt Tokyo, 1930. "[M]any earthquake survivors had to reside in makeshift temporary shelters known as barra...

Earthquake refugee camp [バラック, ‘barakku’] on the Imperial Palace plaza, Tokyo, 1923.

"... The rate of net profit probably is greater than that of any other subsidiary occupation with the single exception of the sericultural industry."

– Japan’s Tea Industry and Trade, by I. Takano, The Trans-Pacific, January 1920

“… Its value to them lies largely in the fact that [tea farmers] not only grow the plants but can also complete the manufacture of the product.

"They find therein romance and philosophy, and the aroma of green tea is inseparably interwoven with the daily life of the nation.

"The farmers of Japan find in the cultivation and manufacture of tea a highly remunerative subsidiary occupation, but to the masses of the people it stands for much more than its purely material value.

“Tea is one of the most important staple products of Japan, and its place in the Empire’s overseas commerce is both old and important.

“Tea-farming”, c. 1920. | Old Tokyo See also: Tea picking at Uji, c. 1920. Tea time, c. 1910. Green tea culture, c. 1950. "The English word 'tea' is derived from the common sound of the character for the plant at Amoy, where it is tay; ...

“Girls picking off tea leaves”, c. 1920.

The "hawker" transliteration refers to a tout or peddler selling goods on the street. Your definition is more fitting for the product, though.

His economic philosophy was influenced by Confucianism, believing that “the path of commerce is the path of humanity” and that ethics were inseparable from business success.