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4 unusual facts about Taishō period


14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun

Breech block design began in 1922 AD, the eleventh year of the Taishō period.

14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval gun

Breech block design began in 1914, the third year of the Taishō period.

20 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval gun

Breech block design began in 1914 AD, the third year of the Taishō period.

Nopporo Shinrin Kōen Prefectural Natural Park

also located inside the Park, is an open air museum with more than 50 historical Japanese and Western-style buildings, dating mostly from the Meiji and Taisho periods, and brought here from different locations in the Hokkaido Prefecture.


Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!

Set during the Taishō period, it uses Nikkatsu's superior technical resources to create what Jasper Sharp calls a pink film-style "sumptuous festival of cruelty" portraying the artistic life of the photographer, writer and kinbakushi, Seiu Itō.

Pavilion for Japanese Art

The museum's collection includes traditional woodblock prints from the Edo period (1615–1868), as well as a large number of prints from the Meiji period (1868–1912), Taishō period (1912–1926), and the Shōwa period (1926–1989).

Tegumi

Known as tegumi in Naha, and mutō in Tomari and Shuri, Okinawan wrestling remained a popular cultural recreation until the Taishō period (1912 – 1925).


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