SUMO

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Jesse Kuhaulua, the only American competing in Sumo, the Japanese form of wrestling.

 

YOKOHAMA PORT

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The city of Yokohama is both a major seaport and industrial complex; it has one of the largest ports in the Tokyo Bay area.

 

TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION

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Japanese excellence in landscaping radiates itself in this picture.

 

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Japanse feudal lords built sturdy, heavy-beamed castles to defend their tiny realms from the almost continuous sequence of petty civil wars.  Built to withstand assaults, as were their European counterparts, they were also constucted in such a way that met Japanese standards of aesthetics.

 

IMPERIAL PALACE

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The Imperial palace was once the center of the powerful Tokugawa clan, before it was taken over by Emperor Meiji in 1869.

 

OSAKA CASTLE

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The main"donjon" of Osaka Castle, cidadel of the once powerful Toyotomi clan.

 


Photos from Margaret Johnson Wiley's 1979 Yearbook unless otherwise noted