[Asian Arts] Japan, 45 various items: (1-6) Six photographs of saké breweries Ca. 1950, var. sizes w. annotations in pencil in English and Japanese on mounts. 2 of the photos w. indication of the location of the brewery, one in Kyoto, the other in the "mountainous village of Tokushima". (2) "The second atomic bomb has fallen on the Japanese port town of Nagasaki (...)." Street view press photo, 15.2 x 20.7 cm, w. printed text verso dated 9/8/45. -and approx. 38 others, incl. 23 col. picture postcards (one showing opium smokers, 1902), 5 col. photos of the Shinto Temple at Nikko on 3 mounts and a large fan w. woodcut ills. and tourist guides. (total approx. 45)

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