Tokyo Industrial Exhibition Explained

The Tokyo Industrial Exhibition (Tōkyō Kangyō Hakurankai) was held in Tokyo, Japan in 1907. Held in Ueno Park, the event celebrated Imperial Japan's economic prowess and patriotism.[1] [2] The event succeeded the five prior National Industrial Exhibitions, but was not organized by the central government. A sixth industrial exhibition had been postponed due to the Russo-Japanese War.[3]

A ferris wheel was installed and featured on a postcard from the event.[4] Electric lights were displayed. Natsume Sōseki wrote about them.[5]

Baron Senge Takatomi was an organizer.[6]

An illustrated catalogue of art exhibits was published.[7] [8] Charles Albert Francis, an American machinist working for Toyota in Tokyo,[9] wrote an article about the event that was published with illustrations.[10] The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has a lithograph of the exhibition's first building.[11] The Tokyo Industrial Exhibition, an extra number of the Teikoku Gaho, an illustrated monthly magazine, was published for the event.[12]

The 1910 Japan–British Exhibition held in London, the 1914 Taisho Promotion Exhibition,[13] [14] and the 1915 Chosŏn Industrial Exposition held in Gyeongseong (Seoul) on the Korean peninsula under Japanese rule followed.[15]

The film An Introduction to the Actual Condition of Taiwan was screened at the exposition. Artist Okada Saburōsuke won a first prize category at the event.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Meiji (Tokyo) Industrial Exhibition, Ueno Park, 1907. | Old Tokyo. February 23, 2015.
  2. Book: Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea . 9781474421829 . Kim . Dong Hoon . 22 March 2017 .
  3. Web site: Fifth National Industrial Exhibition | Part 1: Expositions Held in and before 1900 | Expositions, where the modern technology of the times was exhibited. www.ndl.go.jp.
  4. Web site: Ferris Wheel at the Meiji (Tokyo) Industrial Exhibition, Tokyo, 1907. | Old Tokyo. June 17, 2015.
  5. Book: Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination. Sandy. Isenstadt. Margaret Maile. Petty. Dietrich. Neumann. December 17, 2014. Routledge. 9781317602538 . Google Books.
  6. Web site: The Far Eastern Review: engineering commerce, finance. May 26, 1906. G.B. Rea. Google Books.
  7. Web site: Illustrated Catalogue of Fine Art Works Displayed in the Tokyo Industrial Exhibition, 1907: Industrial arts . 1907 .
  8. Book: East Asian Art History in a Transnational Context. Eriko. Tomizawa-Kay. Toshio. Watanabe. March 29, 2019. Routledge. 9781351061889 . Google Books.
  9. Web site: A Connecticut Yankee Machinist in Toyoda's Castle. September 27, 2013.
  10. Web site: Engineering Index Annual. May 26, 1908. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Google Books.
  11. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/421154
  12. Web site: The Tokyo Industrial Exhibition, an extra number of the 'Teikoku Gaho', an illustrated monthly magazine. by Exhibition - Tokyo 1907.: very good soft cover | Richard Neylon. www.abebooks.com.
  13. Book: Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940 . 9780824876449 . Tseng . Alice Y. . 31 October 2018 . University of Hawaii Press .
  14. Book: The Economic History of Japan, 1600-1990: Economic history of Japan, 1914-1955 : a dual structure. Takafusa. Nakamura. Akira. Hayami. Kōnosuke. Odaka. May 26, 2003. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-828907-4 . Google Books.
  15. . Park . Young-Sin . 2019 . The Chosŏn Industrial Exposition of 1915 .

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