According to a (most helpful!) translator, the caption in the photo below reads: “I was born in Beppu, Bungo,” which is an old name of Oita Prefecture [私しや (I was) 豊後の別府の (Bungo, Beppu) 生れ(born in)]. One website says the creature pictured was born in 1926. Oita Prefecture is on Kyushu, the southernmost major island of Japan. This picture originally appeared on a postcard and was supposedly taken in Kobe.
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