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Sanshin Tailor (Showa era), Old Photo

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三新洋服店

Sanshin Tailor

Ginza, Tokyo · Before 1929 (Showa era)

On the second floor, which juts out over the street, tall windows stand neatly in a row. The critic summed up this tailor's shop in a few words: "compact and well put together."

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A row of tall, narrow windows lines the second floor, which pushes well out over the street. On the ground floor are a large glass display window and an entrance, and from the left fall the line of a sloping roof and a shadow like a tree or ivy. Below, the stone-paved road spreads out bright.

The comment on the tailor "Sanshin" is a single sentence: "A new, pleasant, compact and well-put-together building, with the quality of fine craft." In just a few words it sums up the building's newness, its comfort and its neat composition.

Look closely at the paving stones at the lower left: the joints between them form a diagonal grid. Thin dark lines cross the bright stone, making the finest pattern in the whole photograph.

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Source title
『東京銀座商店建築写真集 : 評入』(昭和4年)
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