Thursday, January 01, 2026

Vintage Japanese Kamikaze New Years Cards

These charming New Years cards celebrated the the historic flight of the Kamikaze, a Mitsubishi Ki-15 aircraft that became the first Japanese-built plane to fly from Japan to Europe. The April, 1937  flight took 51-hours from Tokyo to London






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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:36 am

    Card 2 has some music notation - is that recording on line somewhere?

    p.s. I read your title and saw the first postcard - a kid on a bicycle waving a Kamikaze pilot on his way to attack a ship? Then i read your text. phew! did I jump to conclusions!

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  2. These are vintage postcards. It may be just random scribbles by the artist and I doubt that there is a recording. I made the same assumption about the Kamikaze flight.

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