Literature Perusal: "Mummy"
Reference images
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Left: Self-portrait of Atsushi Nakajima, Right: "Pansy" painted by Nakajima. He also had such a talent. Duplicated from: Yukinobu Tanabe (ed.), Photographic Materials of Atsushi Nakajima, Sourinsha Publishing, 1 December 1981. (A book in Japanese: 田鍋幸信(編), 写真資料中島敦, 創林社, 1 December 1981).
The cover, inner-cover and the contents page(from
left to right) of “Hikari to Kaze to Yume (光と風と夢,
Light, Wind and Dreams)”, published from Chikuma
Shobo Publishing , 15 July 1942, in which Atsushi Nakajima’s Miira (木乃伊,
Mummy) had appeared. Images obtained from an auction site:
https://aucfree.com/items/v616472019
A relief of King Cyrus. Dupricated from: Ernst
Wallis et al,Illustration from "Illustrerad verldshistoria utgifven av E. Wallis.
volume I": Relief of Cyrus,1875/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustrerad_Verldshistoria_band_I_Ill_058.jpg
Cambyses II of Persia after winning the battle of Pelusium on 525 BC,
capturing Psamtik III of Egypt and conquering Egypt. Duplicated from:
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/43/the-battle-of-pelusium-a-victory-decided-by-cats/
A map of Ancient Near East circa 540 BC, prior to the invasion of Babylon by
Cyrus the Great. Duplicated from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Period_of_ancient_Egypt
Lower and upper Egypt, Wikipedia. Duplicated from:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8A%E4%B8%8B%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B8%E3%83%97%E3%83%88
A picture of obelisk which Atsushi Nakajima might have been interested in,
whether he saw it or not. In: The
Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere, Edited by Charles Knight,
Tragedies, Vol. II. Virtue & Co., London, 1839–42?. Duplicated from:
https://shakespeareillustration.org/2016/07/06/cleopatras-needle/
Plan and sections of the tomb of Thoutmosis IV.
The interior of side chamber (Left) and the head of
Thoutmosis IV.
Duplicated from: Howard Carter and Percy E. Newberry,
The Tomb of Thoutmosis IV, Archibald
Constable & CO., Westminster, 1904.
An Ancient Egyptian lady pouring water.
Duplicated from: George Rawlinson, History of Herodotus Vol. II, .John Murray, London 1862.
The wall painting in antechamber of the tomb of
Thoutmosis IV.
Left: Duplicated from: Howard Carter and Percy E.
Newberry, The Tomb of Thoutmosis IV,
Archibald Constable & CO., Westminster, 1904.
Right:
https://images-cdn.bridgemanimages.com/api/1.0/image/600wm.XXX.8954750.7055475/571419.jpg