京都. [Kyoto]. No details of publisher. Late Meiji? (circa1890?). Colour woodblock hikifuda or advertising handbill, 37 x 16.5cm. Loss in two places neatly repaired with paper, evenly browned with some foxing towards the bottom of the print. This advertisement for a mizuhiki trader located in Kyoto, the centre of the..... More
![世界一周早回りゲーム. {Sekai isshu hayamawari gemu]. Quick Around the World Sugoroku...](/pictures/thumb/171593.jpg?v=1611042380)
No publication details. (Circa1960]. Colourful folding sugoroku game sheet, 55 x 79cm, a fukuwarai game on reverse does not include face pieces. This is brightly coloured post-war sugoroku is a "round the world" game and this together with the fukuwarai game printed on the reverse would have been enjoyed by..... More
![新版キセカヱ. [Shinban Kisekae]. [New Version Paper Dolls]. CUT OUT AND DRESS OMOCHA-E WITH...](/pictures/thumb/171350.jpg?v=1611042380)
No place of publication. No details of publisher. Circa [1925]? Colour printed sheet showing a male paper doll with 3 sets of clothes (both front and rear views) and the accompanying possessions that a young man of the day might wish for. 25.5 x 21.5cm, good copy. This paper doll..... More
![郷土便り日本民謡郷土. (Kyōdo Dayori. Nihon Minyō]. [Postcards from Home. Japanese...](/pictures/thumb/170402.jpg?v=1611126955)
東京 [Tokyo]. 新興音楽出版社. [Shinkō Ongaku Shuppansha]. 昭和18 [1943]. 5 very attractive colour postcards, 9 x 14cm, attractive pictorial paper envelope slightly browned and creased, very good copies. These 5 postcards were published for sending to the front line soldiers from the home front. Each postcard has an illustration of a...... More
![生命保険漫画. [Seimei Hoken Manga]. [Life Insurance Manga Postcards]. OKAMOTO IPPEI,...](/pictures/thumb/170401.jpg?v=1611103567)
大阪. [Osaka]. [日本生命保険株式会社]. Nihon Seimei Hoken Kabushiki Kaisha. 昭和8 [1933]. 5 colour manga postcards, 9 x 15 cm, in slightly foxed original envelope. Postcards are all in very good condition. This set of manga postcards were published in1933 by Nippon Life Insurance Company to promote the benefits of life insurance..... More
![ミクニキセカヱ. [Mikuni Kisekae]. [Japanese Dress-up Paper Dolls]. OMOCHA-E. COLOURFUL...](/pictures/thumb/171348.jpg?v=1611042380)
No place of publication. ミクニ. [Mikuni]. Circa [1925]? 4 small colourful sheets each with female paper dolls and their accompanying Japanese and western costume (front and rear views) and their possessions. 20.7 x 14.5cm, a little staining on reverse but nonetheless very good copies. A delightful series of Japanese paper..... More
![東海道五十三次道中寿語録. [Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi dōchū sugoroku]. [Sugoroku Game...](/pictures/thumb/171041.jpg?v=1611103567)
東京. [Tokyo]. 国際情報社. [Kokusai Jōhōsha]. 大正 16 [1926]. Sugoroku game sheet, colour wood block print, 79 x 109cm, 53 illustrated panels with place name panels, complete with the 10 original playing pieces printed on the left margin, a few tiny holes at folds and tiny closed marginal tear professionally repaired..... More
