Can someone translate/tell me something about this envelope?
Article about: I was gifted this envelope by a WWII veteran who picked it up in Japan. Can anyone tell me what period it is from? (Not sure if the veteran visited Japan after the war and picked it up there
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特選風景
Tokusen fūkei
Choice Scenery/Landscapes
奥多摩鳩の巣
Okutama Hato-no-Su
Okutama Hato Valley [literally: Pidgeon's Nest]
最新撮影
Latest/newest Photography
Okutama
Hatonosu Valley
-- Guy
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Oh wow, thanks! So I assume it's advertising a valley in Okutama? or could it have been something to hold photos of the valley in? Because it is an envelope that you can put stuff inside of
Last edited by m2013d04; 02-01-2022 at 02:01 AM.
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It would have held a series of postcards similar to this one, of the same location:
-- Guy
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The marking on the back allows it to be dated to wartime and is explained here.
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