Tokyo Industrial Exhibition

The Tokyo Industrial Exhibition (Tōkyō Kangyō Hakurankai) was held in Tokyo, Japan in 1907. Held in Ueno Park, the event celebrated Imperial Japan's economic prowess and patriotism.[1][2] The event succeeded the five prior National Industrial Exhibitions, but was not organized by the central government. A sixth industrial exhibition had been postponed due to the Russo-Japanese War.[3]

A ferris wheel was installed and featured on a postcard from the event.[4] Electric lights were displayed. Natsume Sōseki wrote about them.[5]

Baron Senge Takatomi was an organizer.[6]

An illustrated catalogue of art exhibits was published.[7][8] Charles Albert Francis, an American machinist working for Toyota in Tokyo,[9] wrote an article about the event that was published with illustrations.[10] The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has a lithograph of the exhibition's first building.[11] The Tokyo Industrial Exhibition, an extra number of the Teikoku Gaho, an illustrated monthly magazine, was published for the event.[12]

The 1910 Japan–British Exhibition held in London, the 1914 Taisho Promotion Exhibition,[13][14] and the 1915 Chosŏn Industrial Exposition held in Gyeongseong (Seoul) on the Korean peninsula under Japanese rule followed.[15]

The film An Introduction to the Actual Condition of Taiwan was screened at the exposition. Artist Okada Saburōsuke won a first prize category at the event.

See also

References
  1. "Meiji (Tokyo) Industrial Exhibition, Ueno Park, 1907. | Old Tokyo". February 23, 2015.
  2. Kim, Dong Hoon (22 March 2017). Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea. ISBN 9781474421829.
  3. "Fifth National Industrial Exhibition | Part 1: Expositions Held in and before 1900 | Expositions, where the modern technology of the times was exhibited". www.ndl.go.jp.
  4. "Ferris Wheel at the Meiji (Tokyo) Industrial Exhibition, Tokyo, 1907. | Old Tokyo". June 17, 2015.
  5. Isenstadt, Sandy; Petty, Margaret Maile; Neumann, Dietrich (December 17, 2014). Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination. Routledge. ISBN 9781317602538 – via Google Books.
  6. "The Far Eastern Review: engineering commerce, finance". G.B. Rea. May 26, 1906 – via Google Books.
  7. "Illustrated Catalogue of Fine Art Works Displayed in the Tokyo Industrial Exhibition, 1907: Industrial arts". 1907.
  8. Tomizawa-Kay, Eriko; Watanabe, Toshio (March 29, 2019). East Asian Art History in a Transnational Context. Routledge. ISBN 9781351061889 – via Google Books.
  9. "A Connecticut Yankee Machinist in Toyoda's Castle". September 27, 2013.
  10. "Engineering Index Annual". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. May 26, 1908 – via Google Books.
  11. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/421154
  12. "The Tokyo Industrial Exhibition, an extra number of the 'Teikoku Gaho', an illustrated monthly magazine. by Exhibition - Tokyo 1907.: very good soft cover | Richard Neylon". www.abebooks.com.
  13. Tseng, Alice Y. (31 October 2018). Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940. ISBN 9780824876449.
  14. Nakamura, Takafusa; Hayami, Akira; Odaka, Kōnosuke (May 26, 2003). The Economic History of Japan, 1600-1990: Economic history of Japan, 1914-1955 : a dual structure. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-828907-4 – via Google Books.
  15. Park, Young-Sin (2019). The Chosŏn Industrial Exposition of 1915 (Thesis). ProQuest 2272298437.
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