Aircraft Carrier And Seaplane Carrier: Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album / 日本海軍艦艇写真集 航空母艦・水上機母艦
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
A rare and authoritative visual record, Aircraft Carrier and Seaplane Carrier: Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album presents a meticulously curated collection of photographs drawn from the archives of the Kure Maritime Museum and the celebrated Fukui Shizuo collection — two of the most significant repositories of Imperial Japanese Navy imagery in existence. The volume chronicles the warships that defined Japan's naval air power during the first half of the twentieth century, documenting aircraft carriers and seaplane tenders with extraordinary photographic clarity and historical precision. Supplemented by the supervisory expertise of Togashi Kazushige, this landmark publication stands as an essential reference for naval historians, ship modellers, and students of Pacific War history alike. The bilingual presentation — Japanese text accompanied by English captions — broadens its reach to an international audience, while the large-format layout allows the photographs to communicate the sheer scale and engineering ambition of these vessels. For anyone seeking to understand the visual and material culture of the Imperial Japanese Navy, this volume raises as many questions about strategy, sacrifice, and sea power as it definitively answers.
Author: 呉市海事歴史科学館 (Kure Maritime Museum)
Format: Hardback
Published: 2005, ダイヤモンド社 (Diamond-sha)
Genre: Maritime history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
A rare and authoritative visual record, Aircraft Carrier and Seaplane Carrier: Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album presents a meticulously curated collection of photographs drawn from the archives of the Kure Maritime Museum and the celebrated Fukui Shizuo collection — two of the most significant repositories of Imperial Japanese Navy imagery in existence. The volume chronicles the warships that defined Japan's naval air power during the first half of the twentieth century, documenting aircraft carriers and seaplane tenders with extraordinary photographic clarity and historical precision. Supplemented by the supervisory expertise of Togashi Kazushige, this landmark publication stands as an essential reference for naval historians, ship modellers, and students of Pacific War history alike. The bilingual presentation — Japanese text accompanied by English captions — broadens its reach to an international audience, while the large-format layout allows the photographs to communicate the sheer scale and engineering ambition of these vessels. For anyone seeking to understand the visual and material culture of the Imperial Japanese Navy, this volume raises as many questions about strategy, sacrifice, and sea power as it definitively answers.