Artist: Unknown
Title: Great Kanto Earthquake - Ruins of Ginza
Date: 1926.
Details & Prices: Unknown: Great Kanto Earthquake - Ruins of Ginza - Artelino
Source:
artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description:
From the series, "Taisho Shinsai Gashu" (Pictures of Taisho Earthquake). "Ginza Doori no Yakeato" (Burnt Ruins of Ginza Street). "Great Kanto Earthquake" September 1st in 1923, the massive earthquake jolted Kanto area. The collapsing building and the inferno followed the earthquake killed 140,000 people. It devastated Tokyo and the surrounding area. This one depicted the Ginza street along which plush brick buildings and gas street lights had been seen before the earth quake.