Chosen Jingu Hosankai - Onrai, Chosen Shrine 10th Anniversary - 1937

Chosen Jingu Hosankai - Onrai, Chosen Shrine 10th Anniversary - 1937 - Published by Chosen Jingu Hosankai - 316 pages - 26 x 36,5 cm First edition, second printing (1940). Hardcover photobook. In good condition (worn). A luxurious large-format commemorative photo book and chronicle published in 1937 by the Chōsen Jingū Hōsankai (Association for the Support of the Chosen Shrine) to mark the 10th anniversary (celebrated in 1935) of the imperial consecration of Chōsen Jingū, the main Shinto shrine established by colonial Japan on Namsan Hill in Seoul (Keijō). Titled Onrai (恩頼, meaning "divine grace descending" or "imperial favor bestowed"), it glorifies the shrine's construction, ceremonies, imperial visits, and symbolic role in uniting Japan and Korea under the Emperor's divine lineage through extensive photographs, poems, historical accounts, and propagandistic texts emphasizing spiritual assimilation and eternal imperial benevolence.

Utropspris:SEK 3,341.61

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