Category: The Black Star Collection
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.290123

Inscriptions:
Captions: Verso: A Rockefeller in Japan. Verso: Japanese characters take time to learn, [caption missing]. Usually an average [caption missing] takes ten years to learn 2000 characters. For foreigners it would take twice as many years but John [Rockefeller] hopes to learn more then 1300 by the time he completes his current course a year and a half later. John [Rockefeller] puts in an average of 14 hours study each day toward [illeg.] these characters.Markings:Verso: A Rockefeller in Japan. Verso: Japanese characters take time to learn, [caption missing]. Usually an average [caption missing] takes ten years to learn 2000 characters. For foreigners it would take twice as many years but John [Rockefeller] hopes to learn more then 1300 by the time he completes his current course a year and a half later. John [Rockefeller] puts in an average of 14 hours study each day toward [illeg.] these characters.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: PERSONALITIES / R
Retouching: N