[Left] Photo taken of Shoda Michiko in late 1941, age seven, while she was a student at Futoba Elementary School, Tokyo. In March 1945 she would be evacuated to the countryside to escape the firebombing of Tokyo.

From: Kawahara, Toshiyaki. Michiko kogo. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1990.

[Right] Dressed in kimono for annual children's festival, November 1941 (shichi-go-san, 7-5-3).

From: Time. March 23, 1959.