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Item Type: Antique Print
Year: c.1928 - 98 years old
Size: 10.5" x 15.25" (27cm x 39cm)
Condition:
This colorful multi-panel supplement comes from Yōnen Club (Children's Club), a popular Japanese children's magazine published by Kodansha beginning in 1914. Created as a New Year's furoku, or special magazine supplement, the sheet provided children with game boards and activities to enjoy during the holiday.
The un-cut sheet features four distinct designs, including a dramatic samurai battle on horseback, a large Kewpie doll face transformed into a game board, the Japanese folk character Goriki Taro, and a playful scene of anthropomorphic animals playing drums beneath Japanese flags. Together, the images capture the mix of traditional Japanese stories, childhood entertainment, and international popular culture found in children's publishing of the period.
The Kewpie is particularly interesting. Created by American illustrator Rose O'Neill in the early twentieth century, the character became enormously popular in Japan during the Taisho era. Its appearance alongside samurai, Japanese folk characters, and traditional New Year's imagery demonstrates how readily Western popular culture was being absorbed and reinterpreted for Japanese children.
Supplements known as furoku were an important part of Japan's competitive children's magazine industry. Publishers included games, paper toys, cutouts, and other bonuses to make their magazines more exciting to young readers and encourage sales. These pieces were specifically intended to be handled, folded, cut, and played with, making complete surviving examples particularly interesting today.
With its colorful printing and lively illustrations, the sheet offers a wonderful glimpse into childhood and popular culture in early twentieth-century Japan, when traditional imagery and new international influences could exist side by side on a single children's magazine page.
Size: 15.25" x 10.5"
Condition: Good to Very Good, Age-appropriate wear. Paper toning in accordance with the print's age. Marks/stains as per photo. Wear around the edges and minor paper loss might be present in some prints. Please refer to each print's image to get a better understanding of the condition.
Age-appropriate wear. Paper toning in accordance with the print's age. Marks/stains as per photo. Wear around the edges and minor paper loss might be present in some prints. Please refer to each print's image to get a better understanding of the condition.
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