For anyone who knows Ōsaka castle, this old postcard will no-doubt look a little odd. Familiar but definitely different. The scene is the Kyōbashi Guchi, a masugata-style gate located to the Northwest of the castle. Standing in the distance is Ōsaka castle’s freshly-painted, concrete main tower.

The time frame for when this image could possibly have been captured is relatively brief. The tower was unveiled around 1930, and the gleaming gate complex failed to survive the bombing of Ōsaka in 1945. No data was available on the portable toilet at the entrance.

It’s a neat little postcard. The colours are vivid and it offers a great perspective of the castle. I’m a little disappointed with the stamps obscuring the bottom-right corner. Also, the red ink stamp is illegible. All-in-all though, it’s a postcard I was happy to get a hold of.

Related posts: Ōsaka’s Megaliths, A postcard from the edge (of the moat).