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Newsweek - The Magazine of News Significance, April 8, 1946: Spring is Circus Time

96 pages. Features: Nice one-page ad for the Lockheed Constellation features illustration of cabin scene in-flight; Attractive color Ford ad features Green car being loaded with luggage; photo of Robert Moses of Chicago wins bubble-blowing contest; Ku Klux Klan article with photo of burning cross and shrouded members; Russian Spy - Nicolai Gregorovich Redin; New Gropings with the Atom; Cordell Hull prepares memoirs; Nice color-photo Camel cigarette ad says "More Doctors Smoke Camels"; Very nice color one-page Coke ad features spring cleaning scene; Gromyko walks out of UNO; Ad for the Town House Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles; Very cute color Schlitz beer ad features bear in nighshirt raiding fridge at night; Guns over Trieste; The Austrian Larder; Arthur Axmann - article with photo; Famine news from Europe; Possible trouble in India - with photo of Gandhi; Trouble for Jewish sports team in Vienna; Shanghai - inflation and theft; Kendo photo from Japan - it has been outlawed by the Allies; Very nice color centerfold ad for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Nice one-page color-portrait of Mr. Mervyn Le Roy in Calvert Whiskey ad; Ontario liberalizes liquor laws; Five more persons accused of Russian spying in Canada; The Capitolio Diamond Mystery; Argentina fears Yankee 'Nazi' threat; Brief obituaries for Noah Beery Sr., Charles F. Hurley, Martin L. Davey, George Washington, Field Marshal Viscount Gort; Shirley Jane Vetter regains sight after her baby is born; Oil - the big three tangle in the middle east; Color Union Pacific ad features Utah's Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks; Yellow Bole Pipe ad; Mr. Baruch on the Extension of OPA; Billiard article and photo on Willie Mosconi; Attractive one-page color ad for the Martin 2-0-2 aircraft; Gerald Kersh lifts veil on sordid side of London; Color-photo Studebaker ad shows Don Wyman and his father grinding metal while J.F. Rogers and son Peter perform heat-treating; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book

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Japanese American Kendo and Nisei Cultural Training in the Interwar United States

1920227341920. Unknown photographer Japanese American kendo tournament photo archive circa early 1930s documents public Japanese American martial arts practice during the interwar period when Issei and Nisei communities used cultural education sport and youth activities to sustain Japanese identity within a hostile racial climate. The strongest images show children or young adolescents in kendo armor competing outdoors before spectators preserving a rare visual record of diasporic martial arts instruction before wartime incarceration disrupted Japanese American institutions. Kendo in North America was closely tied to Japanese immigrant communities before World War II and the North American branch of the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai was approved in 1935 with an explicit goal of fostering kendo among Nisei youth placing these photographs within a broader history of cultural transmission discipline and intergenerational identity formation.<br /> <br /> Nine original silver gelatin photographs mounted on two black album leaves ranging from approximately 2½ x 3 inches to 5 x 7 inches. Four central photographs depict a large outdoor kendo match on a grassy field with child-age participants wearing full bogu armor and holding shinai bamboo swords in competitive formation. Spectators including men in Western suits and brimmed hats sit or stand along the sidelines while automobiles and period dress place the event firmly within interwar American public life. The remaining five photographs show white Americans in leisure scenes automobiles and a naval ship at dock clarifying that the kendo images were preserved within a broader travel album context rather than a single Japanese American family or dojo archive.<br /> <br /> The kendo images carry particular research value because they document Japanese cultural practice in the United States before World War II when Japanese immigrants and their American-born children negotiated public visibility under exclusion law racial restriction and assimilationist pressure. A later historical study of kendo in the United States notes that wartime conditions led to the suppression of kendo and destruction of equipment and records which heightens the evidentiary value of prewar photographs showing armored youth practice in public. Light wear and rippling from adhesive photographs clear and intact very good overall. Compact but significant Japanese American sports and cultural archive preserving interwar youth kendo community spectatorship and the public performance of diasporic identity through traditional martial art. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 380,75 €