Japanese Ephemera

JPC 660JPC 660

Rare Charles Lindbergh sugoroku, titled TAIHEI O ODAN HIKO KYOSO BAN with map design and Charles Lindbergh in America. After the Spirit of St. Louis flight, Lindbergh would later go on to do a survey flight coming to Japan where he was very popular. This game was published in January 1928, shortly after his historic Paris flight. On the reverse is another game titled SHIRO ZEIMEI ICHIBAN NORI SUGOROKU. Great artwork and detail of a castle siege. Game measures 21 X 31.5 inches. Great condition and the first example of Lindbergh in a Japanese board game I have seen.

Price: $700.00

JPC 659JPC 659

1930's Sino Japanese war period. Industrial advertising flyer for Suzuka Fertilizer, with propaganda phrases, such as "One woven straw bag is identical to the homefront defese!", "Brilliant history of 50 years!! 100% fertilizer effect to vegetables, morus, rice plants & wheat", etc. Written on the tank is "The Suzuka Perfect Patriotic Tank". Size 10.4X7.5inches. Rare. M

Price: $190.00

JPC 654

1930's Five Japanese postcards commemorating the " The Completion of Building of Koshu (Artisans) School as the Recovery " (from The Great Kanto Earthquake). Industrial art and photos of the School facilities. M

Price: $200.00

JPC 654

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JPC 649

1910's Japanese postcard, Art of Children Playing War. M

Price: $50.00

JPC 645

1937 sugoroku titled ISAMASHI HEITAI SUGOROKU, or COURAGEOUS SOLDIER. It was produced for the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Size: 21 X 31 inches. M

Price: $700.00

JPC 634

Japanese sugoroku with a female theme. Size 72x55cm. M

Price: $680.00

JPC 627

Japanese air force song composed for memorial day of Aviation, 1940. 9. 28. Music by Suguru Sasaki, lyric selected by Tokyo Asahi Shimbun. Some staining. Size : 35x25cm. M

Price: $110.00

JPC 624JPC 624

Japanese sugoroku titled Japanese Man Expedition Sugoroku. On the reverse is a Transportation Race Sugoroku. Size 78 x 54.5cm. Date 1926. Publisher Koudan-sha. M

Price: $680.00

JPC 622

1925 Sugoroku titled SEKAI ISSHU HIKO SUGOROKU. This is a propaganda game going around the world by airplane teaching about colonial empires like Great Britain and their holdings, for example, Singapore and in Africa. It also includes a rare early Provisional Government of China flag. M

Price: $700.00

JPC 611JPC 611Two early Japanese sugoroku. One is dated 1919 and titled SHONEN SHINGUN SUGOROKU, with scenes from WWI. The other is dated 1909 and titled SHINBAN TORI SUGOROKU. It is about working women, including the Military Red Cross Nurse. Size of both is 22x31 inches. M

Price: $1200.00

JPC 609

Rare woodblock propaganda print Sugoroku of General Fukushima's journey on horseback from Berlin to Vladivostok. Dated 1893. Size 14 X 19 inches. M

Price: $700.00

JPC 601

Japanese home front book, World War 2. M

Price: $90.00

JPC 585

Japanese EDO woodblock map print SUNAKO, 6 books. S M

Price: $1200.00

JPC 584

Pre-war Japanese Shibata Circus Poster. Size: 52x37cm. R M

Price: $120.00

JPC 582

1912 Japanese Kimono girl Vintage board game Sugoroku. M

Price: $600.00

JPC 578

1933 Japanese New Year (The Rooster Year) Greeting mentioning National Defense. "Justice will conquer ! Defend our country. When the cock's crow proclaims the hour of dawn, I will start sounding the warning bell repeatedly in a mere poor village in Izumikita (Osaka)". M

Price: $50.00

JPC 577

1920's National Defense Poster Art by The Ministry of Army. "You lay on the chopping block the you're finished ! Lack of the national defense. Climbing a waterfall against the water flow was my past dream." Art of a Fish (Japan) about to be chopped by a cook (a foreign country) and mention of a historical event (a fallen castle because of lack of defense in the 17th century). M

Price: $80.00