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A housewife shops for a plant during the preparations for New Year. This image is part of The New Year in Japan, a book published by Kobe-based photographer Kozaburo Tamamura in 1906. Original text:
And now, the household must see about procuring a pot or two of the “Prosperous Age Plant,” to complete the attractions of the interior of their “Home Sweet Home,” and minature [sic] pine trees, and bamboo plum twigs are also used for decorative purposes.1
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1 Tamamura, Kozaburo (1906). The New Year in Japan. Tamamura Shashinkan.
Duits, K. (2009, January 1). Kobe, 1906 New Year Celebrations 6, Old Photos of Japan. Retrieved on 2021, Mar 08 from https://www.oldphotosjapan.com/photos/677/new-year-celebrations-6