Photographic postcard from the ‘Great Tokyo’ series titled: ‘The view of the Akasaka Detached Palace standing gracefully at Tokyo’, Japan, 1920 (c). It shows a grand palace behind a black iron gate. The main gate is open and a soldier or guard stands nearby. The palace was completed in 1909 as an Imperial residence. It became a government building in 1948 and in 1974 a State Guest House.

From a collection of 40 loose items, mainly photographs but also a few postcards and envelopes, compiled by Col. William Frederick Blaker (1877-1933), Royal Artillery, and associated with China and Japan, 1927-1929 (c).