Forever unsent
I picked up this old postcard at a secondhand bookstore.
My best guess is that it was taken at the Mikuni in Fukui prefecture, which unless I am very mistaken -- and I might be -- faces the ocean. The kanji in parentheses are "天恵的避暑地", transliterating as "heaven-blessing-y avoid-heat place" ("avoid-heat place" being a standard vocabulary item meaning "summer retreat/resort".)
I wish I knew when it was taken, but there isn't any more information on the card. But it was at least long ago enough to show the worlds of parasol-bearing trad ladyhood and shawl-slung mod flapperdom colliding:
roy:
I'm reading こゝろ now in the Japanese and that image will forever be the scene where Boku meets Sensei.