Japanese Print "Ueno Zoo - Face of Tokyo No.5" by Kitaoka Fumio
Artist:Kitaoka Fumio
Title:Ueno Zoo - Face of Tokyo No.5
Date:1951.
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Description:
From series, "Tokyo no Kao" (Face of Tokyo) No.5, "Ueno Dobutsuen" (Ueno Zoo). It was opened in 1882, the oldest zoo in Japan. It received a pair of Giant Panda from China as the symbolic gift for the several Sino-Japanese Commerce and Friendship Treaties in 1970s.