TOPOGRAPHYCAL AND COMMEMORATIVE OGI FOLDING FAN OF 2600 ANNIVERSARY OF JAPANESE NATION, THAT OCCURRED IN 1940, ONE YEAR BEFORE THE JAPANESE PARTICIPATION IN THE WWII. ON THAT OCCASION, WHICH WAS HELD WITH GREAT POMP, THE AREA OF THE KASHIHARA SANCTUARY WAS EXTENDED,SOME PARTS WERE RESTORED, AND NEW BUILDINGS OF THE SHRINE WERE BUILT. THE HEADING OF THE FAN LEAF ( 図地内案近宮神原橿 聖 ) SAYS ALMOST THIS: “ ILLUSTRATION ( MAP ) OF THE KASHIHARA SHINTO SHRINE'S TERRITORIAL AREA ( LITERALLY  Kashihara jingū: THE LAST WORD IS USED TO DEFINE A SHINTO SHRINE CONNECTED TO THE IMPERIAL HOUSE OF JAPAN) ON THE NEARBY BACKGROUND”. ON THE MAP WE CAN SEE ALSO, AS WRITTEN IN THE CARTOUCHES, THE FUKADA POND  深田池,  OKUBO POND  大久保池, LIBRARY, ARCHERY HALL, NATIONAL MUSEUM, DOHJOH, STATION. IN FACT, WE CAN SEE THE RAILWAY, WITH  A BIG STATION, PROBABLY Kashiharajingū-nishiguchi 橿原神宮西口駅. THE JAPANESE RAILWAY BEGINS ITS HISTORY IN 1872. THE KASHIHARA SHRINE IS LOCATED IN THE HOMONYM CITY, IN NARA PREFECTURE, NEAR UNEBI-YAMA MOUNTAIN, AND SITUATED IN AN ENORMOUS FOREST. IT WAS BUILT IN 1889 AT THE SITE OF KASHIHARA-GU WHERE JAPAN'S FIRST EMPEROR JIM MU IS SAID TO HAVE ACCEDED TO THE THRONE. ON THE BACK OF THE FAN THERE ARE FIVE NUMBERED STROPHES OF A SONNET, WHICH THREE OF CAN BE TRANSLATED SO:

THE FAN HAS CROMOLITHOGRAPHED DOUBLE PAPER LEAF ON RECTO, AND CALLYGRAPHIC WRITTENS ON VERSO. 1940. CM.27. MAX. WIDTH CM. 45. STICKS 9+2. MANY THANKS TO MY FRIEND GLORIA BONACCINI FOR HER PRECIOUS INTUITIONS AND TO A JAPANESE FRIEND WHO HELPED US IN THE BACK LEAF TRANSLATION.