Apostle, from the series Yaso junishito hanga saku (Woodcuts of the Twelve Disciples of Christ)

Francis Haar (1908-1997) was presented with this woodcut by Munakata when Haar was filming his 1953 documentary "The Arts of Japan." Haar is a well-known proponent of social realist photography. Of Hungarian birth, he studied interior architecture before teaching himself photography in the 1920s. After a stint in Paris as a portrait photographer, Haar moved to Japan in 1939, spending the war years in evacuation housing. He was a filmmaker under the auspices of the Occupation forces after the war. Haar and his wife were fixtures in the Tokyo art scene and popular hosts of their restaurant Irene's Hungarian in the Ginza district. Haar died in Honolulu at 89 after twenty years as an instructor of photography at the University of Hawaii.