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We picked a house years ago of a woman who had worked for and retired from the Red Cross.  She was stationed in Korea well before the Korean War until several years afterwards when she was transferred to Vietnam.  She had myriad items from the period including a large photo album filled with personal photographs she had taken of some really cool Korean War and Vietnam War era related events and the surrounding area.  We've had the album sitting on a shelf in a closet ever since we got them and figured someone else would enjoy them instead of them just sitting around collecting dust so to speak.  We'll be listing them over the coming days, so if collecting military related items is your thing, check out our inventory as we add them.  If you're interested in more than one item, we're always happy to combine shipping.

For sale is a group of four cool photographs of the grounds at the Nikko Kanaya Hotel in Nikko, Japan.

These photos were taken during one of the lady's trips to Japan while she was living in Korea.

These pictures are pretty darn cool and certainly ones you won't see again.

These photos were among ten photos the lady took of the hotel itself, some of the Japanese students who happened to be at the hotel while she was there, Irohazaka on her way there and of course the grounds of the hotel.

The hotel has a long history in Japan and was first opened by Zenichiro Kanaya in 1873 and is still opened today.  Over the years, the hotel was visited by many famous people, perhaps none more loved in Japan than Isabella Bird.

As you can see in these photos, the grounds must've been quite beautiful and were filled with ornamentions that are symbolic in Japan.  It would be cool to know what the pillars in one of the photos has written on them.  You can see kanji characters carved into each of them in the picture above.

One of the photos above is of the garden area in front of the shown in pone of our photos of the hotel itself that is listed separately.

We found a photo (35mm slide technically) of the Nikko Kanaya Hotel that is dated 1955 that we included in our photos of the hotel and Irohazaka that we also have for sale.  There is a sign in the slide that has Kanaya Hotel on it, but it has not been put up yet in our photo of the hotel we have for sale.

We also know that the first Irohazaka was completed in 1954 and the slide of the hotel was taken in 1955.  Given those years, we know these photos would date to that timeframe.

PLEASE NOTE: One of the pictures above is these photos in the photo album with the description the previous owner wrote below the photos and the last photo is the front cover of the photo album these photos are in.  The photos do not come in the album or on the page shown in the picture above.

These photographs are all in excellent condition and measure just under 4 1/2" by 3 1/4".

These photos will be shipped in a padded envelope via media mail with the USPS.  We put all our items that ship in padded envelopes in between cardboard for extra protection during shipping.

Thanks for looking and God bless!