Bird's eye view and Hatsusaburo Yoshida

Bird's eye view and Hatsusaburo Yoshida

From the 1910s to the 1930s, Japan experienced a major tourism boom.
Amidst this boom, Hatsusaburo Yoshida (1884-1955) incorporated bird's-eye views into travel pamphlets for Japan and other countries.
Yoshida, who was born in Kyoto and had a workshop in Aichi Prefecture, visited Hachinohe City for the first time in 1932 and was fascinated by the beauty of Tanesashi Coast.
In the autumn of that year, he began building a villa and atelier named Shiokanso along the coast, and three years later moved there with his family and his workshop disciples.
Shiokanso flourished as a base for producing bird's-eye views of the Tohoku region and Hokkaido.
However, it was destroyed by fire in 1953.
Shiokanso does not exist anymore, but the beautiful Tanesashi Coast that Yoshida loved continues to fascinate visitors.