Samurai w/swords in front of the Sphinx

[Taro Toporific]

The real thing: Photos of the samurai of yore Nov 6 / Daily Yomiuri
Guest personalities in a TV variety show broadcast 1-1/2 months ago were all amazed to see a copy of a 140-year-old photo. They had been asked beforehand whether they believed that a group of samurai had been photographed in front of the Sphinx during Japan's era of national seclusion. Many doubted it...."Samurai--Dandyism in Japan" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Ebisu, at Yebisu Garden Place in Tokyo. . . .

[kotatsuneko]

best eva news/interest post yet dude! will def have to follow up on this! cheers ^^

[gomichild]

Hmmm you're falling off the cutting edge a little Taro my sweet:

Cerebral Soup - August 20

[AssKissinger]

There is a famous photo taken in 1864 of a group of bushi (samurai) standing in front of the Sphinx in Egypt. Not particulary astonishing however

Not astonishing?