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[Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901- , full-length portrait, seated, in coronation regalia] – Historic Photograph Print

[Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901- , full-length portrait, seated, in coronation regalia] — historic photograph
[Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901- , full-length portrait, seated, in coronation regalia]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Seated in full ceremonial regalia, the young Hirohito is shown at length rather than in the head-and-shoulders studies more often reproduced. The record dates the portrait to 1926, the year he succeeded his father, the Taishō emperor, and began a reign that would last until 1989. Formal imperial imagery of this kind asserted continuity of the throne during a period of rapid industrial growth and rising political tension in Japan. The staging of the pose follows older court conventions of dignity and distance, which is worth noticing when comparing it with later portraits of the emperor.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[1926]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,500 × 2,032 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122993

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