Help with some postcards please

[andya]

Hi
Can anyone help with these.Way out of my field.
Would like to know any information possible on the photograph and also the people in the postcard and the era it was issued.
Thank you in advance
andy

[andya]

Anyone?
thanks
andy

[GHP]

Anyone?
thanks
andy

I Can't read the tiny fonts on the obverse.



If you want a translation of the German:

Prof. T. Yunomi
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On the Staff of the Imperial Japanese Expedition Army in Siberia from September 1918 - February 1919

In November 1923 at Vienna.

And I'm not certain about the surname (?) Yunomi, I cannot find that while doing a google search.


--Guy

[andya]

many thanks for you help
regards
andy

[andya]

Can anyone let me know who is in the postcard
thanks
andy

[GHP]

Yuji Taro & Goto Shinpei

Okay! I think it is Count Gotō Shinpei; showing him young and old. Can't tell by the wiki article, but I did an image search using your post card and the most likely result said Gotō Shinpei. So I took a further dive into the Google Image archives and found some photos that show glaring similarities.

The photograph is subtitled:
後藤臺灣民政長官
Gotō Taiwan Minsei Chōkan
Gotō, Taiwan Civil Governor-General

The brochure shows what looks to be a statue based on the postcard; as an elderly statesman wearing a court uniform replete with gongs galore.

BINGO! Look:

6 　兒玉總督與後藤民政長官

日治時期明信片

圖像說明：明信片上有「博物館落成紀念」等字樣。、兒玉源太郎(1852-1906) 於明治32-39年(1899-1906)擔任臺灣第四任總督；後藤新平(1857-1929) 於明治31至39年

6 Kodama, Governor General Yasuhiro Goto

Japan-Taiwan period postcard

Image Explanation: There are words such as "Museum Memorial" on the postcard. Yuji Taro (1852-1906) served as the fourth Governor of Taiwan in the period of Meiji 32-39 (1899-1906); Goto Shinpei (1857-1929) in Meiji 31-39

Sorry for the rambling, but this was a work-in-progress: I wrote as I found. Some of the translations were weird ... then I remembered some were in Chinese, not Japanese, so had to use Chinese google-translate -- and got a better product.




--Guy