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Vintage Japan-esque that show lovely portraits of Japanese children, possibly from between the 1930s and 1950s.
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Portraits of Japanese children from between the 1930s and 1950s |
Photographs are from a large wooden box that appears to have belonged to a Japanese portrait photographer in Japan. One box of film included showed an expiration date of 1951.
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A girl in braids, a dress, and flats holding Chitose Ame Shichi-Go-San candy |
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A Japanese boy and Japanese girl in traditional happi coats (he is wearing a headband as well) |
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A Japanese boy in a suit with hat and a girl in kimono with hair bow |
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A Japanese boy in a suit with traditional Shichi-Go-San (seven-five-three) candy |
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A Japanese boy in a traditional happi coat, a headband, and bells |
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A Japanese boy in very high waist pants and holding a toy train |
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A Japanese boy posing for a portrait with traditional Chitose Ame candy for Shichi-Go-San holiday |
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A Japanese child in a kimono with the traditional Shichi-Go-San candy, a hair bow and sandals |
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A Japanese girl in a checkered kimono and hair bow with traditional Shichi-Go-San candy |
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A Japanese girl in a dress, handbag, and flats holding Chitose Ame candy, which is traditional for the Japanese Shichi-Go-San (seven-five-three) holiday |
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A Japanese girl in a kimono and hair bow with traditional Japanese Shichi-Go-San candy |
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A Japanese girl in a kimono and wooden sandals |
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A Japanese girl in a kimono with a bow, geta sandals, and folded fan. She also has the traditional Shichi-Go-San Chitose Ame candy |
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A Japanese girl in a kimono with flowers and checkered pattern. She is also holding Chitose Ame (Thousand Year Candy) for Shichi-Go-San |
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A Japanese school boy in a uniform, hat, and backpack |
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A young Japanese boy in a hakama/kimono and sandals |
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A young Japanese boy in a sweater vest |
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A young Japanese boy in kimono holding traditional Shichi-Go-San candy |
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A young Japanese girl in a dress and flats |
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A young Japanese girl in a kimono and hair bow and holding a bow as well as traditional Shichi-Go-San candy |
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A young Japanese girl in a kimono with a handbag and hair bow |
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A young Japanese girl in a sailor school uniform with tie and backpack |
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A young Japanese girl in a velvet blouse and hat and holding traditional Chitose Ame candy for Shichi-Go-San |
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A young Japanese girl in kimono and a young boy in a shorts suit - both of them holding Chitose Ame candy for the Shichi-Go-San Festival |
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A young Japanese girl in kimono and a young Japanese boy in a suit. The boy is holding Chitose Ame candy, traditional for the Shichi-Go-San festival |
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A young Japanese girl in kimono with a hair bow and fan |
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A young Japanese girl in kimono with traditional Shichi-Go-San candy (Chitose Ame) |
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A young Japanese girl posing for a portrait in a kimono |
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A young Japanese girl wearing a kimono and holding a handbag |
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Two Japanese boys in traditional happi coats and headbands (with bows) |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnH7QNSJY2y77Btj2RqTPTLBQhY7LKLnYLMrLUtv4CEumYF3MZ17MesBLxzzCHEceMwqgLM2YVwq9WW7XRHmUSncD0AfGRt4q-L7aGz9hl8558w8ucxhSUQMFO4t0M86KomC2MfQvWt6w/s16000-rw/vintage-japanese-children-32.jpeg) |
Two Japanese children, one is a suit, posing for a portrait in the old days |
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Two young Japanese girls in kimono, one holding what looks like a traditional New Year's hagoita paddle except that it's rounded, not square |
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