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japaneseGifts

in 1928, my maternal grandfather Harry Adair spent a year in japan, installing GE turbo-generators at a damsite; he brought these gifts back for my mom.

kimono

umbrella

silver vase

and in an ironic twist of fate, his son James was captured on Corregidor & spent 4 years on a Jap.prison camp in Manchuria.