Figure 1.--This Japanese cabinet portrait shows a teenager wearing his school uniform. iven his age he would be attendng a secondary school. It is not unlike the uniform the boys still wear in Japan. The portrait was taken in Meiji 31 (1898). It was taken by the S. Hara photo studio of (and we must be reading this wrong) Bingo. The inscription on the back is rather difficult to read but part of it gives the young man's name and the date. Perhaps our Japanese readers will be able to make it out. Put your cursor on the imasge to see the inscription on the back. Hopefully our Japanese readers will tell us what it says.

This Japanese cabinet portrait shows a teenager wearing his school uniform. iven his age he would be attendng a secondary school. It is not unlike the uniform the boys still wear in Japan. The portrait was taken in Meiji 31 (1898). It was taken by the S. Hara photo studio of (and we must be reading this wrong) Bingo. The inscription on the back is rather difficult to read but part of it gives the young man's name and the date. Perhaps our Japanese readers will be able to make it out.

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