Students perform outdoors at Methodist mission's Hirosaki Boys' School in Aomori, Japan. Crowds of students clapping while they watch the demonstration inside the campus (13-1 Minori-cho Hirosaki-shi, Aomori 036-8231). Male highschool students waving flags in front of the crowd.
Students study Kendo outdoors at Methodist mission's Hirosaki Boys' School in Aomori, Japan. Crowds of students wearing armor bow to their sensei before the kendo class inside the campus (13-1 Minori-cho Hirosaki-shi, Aomori 036-8231). Male high school students bring out their swords. The put on their helmets. Two students wearing Kendo armor, also known as Bogu. A pair of students engage in a kendo match. Two Kendo sensei teachers bow to the camera before starting a match. The two men engage in a sword fighting match. Japanese students practice Kendo. A Japanese sensei stands near his students.
Japanese students attend an arts class at the Hirosaki Boys’ School in Aomori Prefecture, Japan (13-1 Minori-cho Hirosaki-shi,Aomori 036-8231). The students, all Japanese boys, sketch a rabbit and other animals that are on display. The students bow to their teacher before the start of class. Rabbits grazing inside enclosure as students gather to draw them. Goats grazing in field. A boy with sketchbook. A rabbit digging earth.
Shows Winter activities like children playing in snow, clearing snow from school building roofs with snow shovels, and enjoying a snow ball fight during winter in Japan at Methodist Mission's Hirosaki Boys school. Film shot in approximately 1934-35.
Shinto priests sit outside a shrine. A Shinto priest lead a ritual. He bows down in front of an altar. People carrying a Mikoshi portable shrine during a festival. People crossing a curved bridge. Japanese civilians visit a Shinto shrine. They attend a ritual service led by Shinto priests.
The silk and textile industry in Japan. Japanese farmers engage in sericulture to supplement their income. A Japanese farmer smiles as she cultivates mulberry leaves for silkworms. Farmers gather mulberry leaves. A Japanese girl gather silk cocoons. Woman boils silk cocoons left by the silkworms. Smokestacks of factories in Japan. Silk cocoons are thrown into a pile. A machine processing raw silk. Japanese women working in silk factory. They place silk cocoons in steaming vat. Machines process raw silk into fabric.