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10 and may also still be in the US. At this point, it is difficult to establish just how many Japanese war paintings were shipped to the US. Relying on the shipping documents alone is clearly not enough. Moreover, it seems that the Occupation personnel were less than forthright in the documentation of their confiscation and shipping of the Japanese war record paintings. Confusion is clearly evident in the fragmentary nature of the documents that the activity left behind. In 1951, it was not very easy to not see the significance of the Japanese war record paintings and it was convenient to dismiss these works as mere propaganda. In fact, several Occupation documents expressed this kind of evaluation of the confiscated paintings, from the beginning of their confiscation up to the point of their shipment. It is only in hindsight that these works, no matter how controversial their theme and the circumstance of their creation, gain greater significance through the lenses of history.
11 Table 1: Comparison of number of paintings per list Name of List No. of Works Remarks MacArthur List 152 1947 List 153 1951 List 154 - same as MacArthur list - plus Ōta Kijirō's “On Army Day” Shipping List 154 - same a 1951 list MoMAT List 153 - plus Ōta Kijirō's “On Army Day” - plus Tagami Hayao's “Portrait of Admiral Koga” - 3 missing paintings from the Occupation-era lists - additional 4 paintings not in any Occupation-era list • If the counting system of the NMMA is used, only 152 paintings were “officially” confiscated and sent to the United States.
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