TYPE: Kimono
LANGUAGE
English
ITEM ID: 985
Kamikaze Aircraft Kimono
DATE
Year: 1937
Decade: 1930s
Century: 20th (1901-2000)
Kamikaze Aircraft Kimono. The Kamikaze was a Mitsubishi Ki-15 registered as JBAAI. It was built to fly from Japan to Europe and was piloted by Masaki Iinuma. The flight took 51 hours 17 minutes and 23 seconds. After this record flight the plane was used in the South of China.
Asia/Africa
This collection houses art and artifacts from China, Ethiopia, India and Japan.
