LYS & CANON

   Lys & Canon or Lily & Cannon in his third book, Christian Polak presents to the public new uncovered images and letters of French people who stayed in Japan between 1860 and 1910 : the botanist Ludovic Savatier who introduced the strawberry in Japan, and the Japanese lily in France ; new documents concerning the Shimonoseki war by Alfred Roussin and his splendid watercolors ; the first French phographers in Japan during the last year of the Tokugawa shogunate with Fauchery, Du Pin, Le Bas and Champion undiscovered images ; and the story about the famous french company Schneider Le Creusot which delivered all the necessary cannons for the japanese new warships of the Imperial Navy from 1890 to 1894. " Lys & Canon " celebrating party was organized at French embassy in Tokyo on 13 February 2014.

Christian Polak ( クリスチャン　ポラック )　Author.

 

Lys & Canon ( 百合と巨筒 )

 

The collection of Christian Polak for the menu at

French embassy in Tokyo.

 

H.E.Christian Masset (right) Ambassador of France

to Japan, Bernard Delmas (center) President of French

Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Japan and

Christian Polak (left).

 

Christian Polak (left), H.E.Christian Masset (center)

and Jinsun Iesawonwong (right).

 

Michel Theoval (left) President of GHT consulting Ltd,

Christian Polak (center) and Bernard Delmas (right).

 

Hélène Masset (left) wife of the French ambassador

to Japan and Christian Polak (right).

 

Jinsun Iesawonwong (left), Junko Koshino (center)

Fashion designer and Christian Polak (right).

 

Gaël Austin (left) and Yves Alemany (right).

 

Masahiro Sato (right) and Christian Polak (left).

 

Philippe Dalpayrat (left) Attorney and Christian Polak .

 

Yukio Yoshida (right) and his wife Ikuko (center)

and Christian Polak (left).

 

Pascal Furth (left) French embassy, Jinsun Iesawonwong

(center) and Christian Polak ( right).

 

Jinsun Iesawonwong (left), Akemi Ishii (second from left)

Translator, Christian Polak (center), Erika and Dominique

Peschard ( right) University Professor.

 

Kei Osawa (left) Intermediatheque, museum of Tokyo

university, Régis Arnaud (second from left) Correspondant

of Le Figaro in Japan, Matthieu Seguela (second from right)

and Christian Polak (right).

 

Christian Polak (left), Kimio Koketsu (center) and

his daughter, from OYA-SHOBO.

 

Maïa Maniglier (left) President of Exprime Co. and

Christian Polak (right).

 

Hiroshi Ueki (left) Former Director of culture Agency

and Christian Polak (right).

 

Mitsuo Nitta (left) chairman of Yushodo shoten

and Christian Polak (right).

 

Katsue Kobayashi (left), Akinori Matsumoto (second from left),

Tomo Shiba (third from left), Christian Polak (center), Yasuyuki

Shitara (right), Alain Nguyen (second from right), Shin Ito ( third

from right), Tetsu Namba (back, right) and Geoffroy de Pontbriand (back, left).