PRESENTATION PHOTOS FROM A LIVING GOD HIROHITO (1901-1989, Emperor of Japan) & his wife Empress NAGAKO

Superb pair of Presentation Portrait Photographs signed in Japanese, which were given to the Canadian Ambassador, (Thomas Clayton DAVIS Ambassador to Japan from June 1954 until March 1957. He also held posts in Australia and Germany), the Emperor and Empress and three quarter length she is wearing traditional Japanese dress and he is wearing a suit, each in sterling silver frames with the Imperial Crest in gold at the head, 9" x 6" in frames 15" x 12", with their original wooden boxes, no place, c.

The 124th Emperor of Japan, in direct lineage and the first Japanese Prince to visit the West (in 1921). He acceded in 1926 and his reign was marked by rapid militarisation and the aggressive wars against China and the USA ending with the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Under American occupation, in 1946, the Emperor renounced his legendary divinity and most of his powers to become a democratic constitutional monarch.

Item Date:  1938

Stock No:  26100      £17500

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