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70302-0003 - Japanese School Girls Playing Table Tennis

Okayama 1935
Practicing Table Tennis

Artist Yusa Studio
Publisher Yusa Studio
Medium Gelatin Silver Print
Period Showa
Location Okayama
Image No. 70302-0003
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Japanese school girls playing table tennis.

This photo comes from a year album for 1935 of Okayama Girls’ High School (岡山県岡山高等女学校) in Okayama City, Japan. The 55 photographs show the female students studying, doing traditional Japanese as well Western sports, playing games, posing, at the train station and about town. The album also includes classroom scenes, portraits of teachers as well as administrative personnel and the Showa era wooden school building itself.

For more information about education in Japan during the Meiji, Taisho and early Showa periods, read Okayama 1935 • School Girls Eating Bento.

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Old Photos of Japan aims to be your personal museum for Japan's visual heritage and to bring the experiences of everyday life in old Japan to you.

To enhance our understanding of Japanese culture and society I track down, acquire, archive, and research images of everyday life, and give them context.

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Kjeld Duits

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Duits, Kjeld (). Okayama 1935: Practicing Table Tennis, OLD PHOTOS of JAPAN. Retrieved on November 10, 2026 (GMT) from https://www.oldphotosjapan.com/photos/321/practicing-table-tennis

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