Key Information

Photographer

Willoughby Patrick Rosemeyer

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1922?

Named Person

Yashojiro Yajima

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

1998.285.584

Image Dimensions

139 x 89 mm

Yashojiro Yajima, Japanese in Tibetan dress. He drilled Tibetan soldiers on Japanese lines.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Copy Negative

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St. Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Copy Neg

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell

Photo also owned by

Sir Charles Bell; Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

P.540

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.P.540

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] LIV. [Subject of Chapter] China and foreign elements in Tibet. [Subject of illustration] P.540 (gl) (y) Yashojiro Yajima, Japanese in Tibetan dress. He drilled Tibetan soldiers on Japanese lines. [Remarks] Rosemeyer's."

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: 1922 is the first date that one can determine that Rosemeyer went to Lhasa officially. [King, W. H. The Telegraph to Lhasa in 'The Geographical Journal', Vol. LXIII No.6, June 1924: 529] [MS 24/02/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Yashojiro Yajima" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.584.html>.

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