Author: Exhibition, Kyoto 1895. Yoshiwara Takeo.
Title: [Daiyonkai Kangyo Hakurankai Taikyoku Zenzu?].
Description: Kyoto, Ide Shozo 1895 (Meiji 28) Lithograph 42x56, folded. A scattering of small wormholes and signs of use; not bad. ¶ A bird's-eye view of the 4th National Industrial Exhibition held in Kyoto from April to the end of July 1895. Five of these national exhibitions were held between 1877 and 1903; the first three in Tokyo and, after some provincial agitation, this in Kyoto and the fifth in Osaka. Each was bigger, better and more crowded than their predecessor.

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