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Website Links:

“Images of the Great Kantō Earthquake and Fire of 1923,” photographs by Edgar Sykes, National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Great Kantō Earthquake 1923, Photographs by August Kengelbacher

The Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection, Professor Kerry Smith, Brown University

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For many photographs of buildings in Tokyo during the Showa period and during reconstruction view: Watanabe, Hiroshi, The Architecture of Tokyo

Credits

Tokyo Modern I: Koizumi Kishio’s 100 Views of the Imperial Capital (1928–1940)
was developed by Visualizing Cultures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and presented on MIT OpenCourseWare.

John W. Dower
Project Director
Emeritus Professor of History

Shigeru Miyagawa
Project Director
Professor of Linguistics
Kochi Prefecture-John Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture

Ellen Sebring
Creative Director

Scott Shunk
Program Director

Andrew Burstein
Media designer

James T. Ulak
Deputy Director
Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
Author, essay

Additional research was provided by:
Kyoko Arakawa
Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution

Koizumi Kishio images provided by:
The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach, FL,
The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection

Tokyo series by 8 artists images provided by:
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Additional images provided by:
Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
Private collectors

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