TOKYO: THE IMPERIAL CAPITAL
The Third Regiment Headquarters at Azabu, May 1932
Koizumi Kishio (Japanese, 1893–1945)
Tokyo
Color woodblock print
11 3/4 x 15 3/8" (29.8 x 39.1 cm)
Credit: The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
TD1993.69.1.79
Photo: Silvia Ros
The early months of 1932 were filled with militaristic and imperialistic activities: the bombing of Shanghai, the establishment of Manchoukuo (formerly Manchuria) as a Japanese puppet-state, and political assassination. An image of the military compound, located near the Imperial Palace, would therefore have been oddly appropriate at the time. Koizumi depicts the headquarters of the Third Infantry Regiment of the First Division, where Prince Chichibu, brother of Emperor Hirohito, served. The Third Regiment achieved notoriety for the role some of its men played in the attempted coup d'etat on 26 February 1936.
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