| Item title: | The mask maker and the Shôgun |
| Title (romaji): | Menshi to shôgun |
| Title (kanji) | |
| Location: | Australian War Memorial (7/9/12 J111) View information about obtaining a copy of this document |
AJRP details | |
| AJRP module: | Australian War Memorial leaflets |
| AJRP series: | Far Eastern Liaison Office propaganda leaflets |
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Location details | |
| Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
| Call number: | 7/9/12 J111 |
| Inst. series: | Various |
| Inst. sub-series: | |
| Item: | J111 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 2 pages, print and mimeographed copy |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Leaflet |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 11/9/1943 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | LEAFLET DROPPING, PROPAGANDA |
| Australian unit names: | |
| Allied unit names: | FAR EASTERN LIAISON OFFICE |
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| Languages: | English, Japanese |
| Area: | Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands) Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) |
| Content: | This item is a Japanese-language propaganda leaflet produced by the Far Eastern Liaison Office during the Second World War. An English translation of the text is attached. The leaflet introduces a historical episode about the Genji clan and compare parties involved in the war to the main characters of the story, the military clique to the selfish Shôgun, Japanese citizens to a devoted mask maker and young patriotic solders to the ambitious daughter of the mask maker. The message stresses that ordinary Japanese people will come through sufferings to understand the truth of the war, as the mask maker did through his painful experiences. In the meantime, the evil military clique and their patriotic followers will perish like the Shogun and his mistress. 100,000 of them were printed. |
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| Last modified: | 11/28/2001 04:13:44 PM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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