Photographer unknown, published 1953 in Otodake Iwazo, Mikimoto Kokichi; reproduced by the National Diet Library, Japan, Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures. · Photographic portrait of Mikimoto Kokichi as an old man, photographer unknown, reproduced as the first image on the National Diet Library's online exhibition 'Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures' (entry 396). The exhibition's data identifies the image as taken from the digitised NDL book with persistent ID 2974878, Otodake Iwazo, 'Mikimoto Kokichi' (Seinen Series no. 4, Shakai Kyoiku Kyokai, Tokyo, 1953), which the NDL catalogue lists as published in 1953 with plates; so the photograph was published in Japan in 1953, before 1956. The Library's usage notice says every portrait image in the exhibition is one whose copyright term has expired and may be reused without application, including commercially. The photograph's own date and photographer are not stated. Original 1024 x 1480 pixels, downscaled to 830 x 1200 with no cropping and no upscaling. · Public domain (copyright term expired; National Diet Library usage notice)