1914 Japanese Monument at the Alamo
To the Memory of the Heroes of the Alamo [Nagashino Castle in the U.S. / Alamo in Japan]
A very scarce postcard commemorating the placement of a Japanese memorial at the Alamo in 1914. The Tokyo scholar Shigetaka Shiga commissioned a granite monument for the Alamo, comparing the events there with the siege of Nagashino Castle in Japan in 1575. The memorial became controversial during World War Two.....
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