Featured Japanese Children's Picture Book - help

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  1. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    I acquired this book recently and would really like some help with it. I tried to use Google translate, but I just couldn't in this case. It reads from back to front.

    I think it may be a "things we do in our daily lives and also on holidays" type book for young children. The pictures of the biplanes and the ironclad ship make me think 1910 - 1915 maybe? The Sumo wrestling page is fantastic.

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    Oops - I forgot to take a picture of the biplanes page.
     
    Bookahtoo, Jun 22, 2020
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  2. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    The drop waist dress places the cover figure in the 1920s.

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  3. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

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  4. Bookahtoo

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    Thanks Debora. I thought girls wore drop waist dresses earlier than that, but maybe not that style.
     
    Bookahtoo, Jun 22, 2020
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  5. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    True, they did. But other considerations are... The skirt length, the cloche-ish hat, the bright polka dot print and the Mary Janes all say 1920s to my eye.

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  6. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    ISN'T she JUST PERFECT!!!!!!! LOVE the PIC, Debora!!!!:happy::happy::happy::happy::happy:
     
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  7. clutteredcloset49

    clutteredcloset49 Well-Known Member

    That picture of the Sumo wrestlers made me wonder if Japan held a World's Fair.

    1922 Peace Exposition
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    I didn't go through the whole website. And I am not saying that your book relates to the Expo. However, there does appear to be similarities to these pictures.
     
    clutteredcloset49, Jun 22, 2020
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  8. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    Cluttered - you're so smart! I never would have thought of that!
     
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  9. Bookahtoo

    Bookahtoo Moderator Moderator

    Debora, when you're right, you're right!
     
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  10. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Think the dresses made a comeback for little girls in the 50s. A cousin my age had one & I was so envious, but then I also wanted a sailor suit. I think we called them chemise dresses, although that term does not really find them on the Internet now. The dress my maternal grandmother wore to her wedding in 1924 was the drop waist with ruffles look.
     
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  11. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    This alone might sell it to someone. Appear to be labeled illustrations of various sumo moves, all different, a whole sumo primer.
     
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  12. Bookahtoo

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    @Debora - did you notice the pinafores on the boats page?
     
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  13. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Speaking of the boats page - those out further from shore are much more 20s than 50s.
     
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  14. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Yes, they appear to be worn over kimonos. Isn't that interesting?

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  15. Bookahtoo

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    It looks like the baby and the little boy in the last picture are wearing them too. I wonder if they were called pinafores?
     
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  16. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    What's happening in the last picture? Looks like he untied & opened the box, getting a surprise that knocked him back. At the moment I can only think of firecrackers, but could it be a smell?
     
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  17. Bookahtoo

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    I think that along the bottom of each page there is another story being told, separate from the main story of the book, perhaps a folk tale of some kind?
    On the previous page it looks like when he found that box it was putting of rays of heat!
     
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  18. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    I see in the panel above that there are creatures with butterfly wings & also a box giving off something. The plot thickens!
     
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  19. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

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    Love them visiting with the octopus & watching the bats. If the silhouette on the right is the little girl with a big bow in her hair, that really puts in to 20s/30s. My mother said she hated them but that her younger brother always wanted one.
     
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  20. Couch Potato Wannabe

    Couch Potato Wannabe Well-Known Member

    The majority of the text is too small for me to read... Although, I can read it is a monthly publication, in the top white writing on the first page. The large red writing is 報畫年幼 is like saying information for young children, though doesn't directly translate well.
     
    Couch Potato Wannabe, Jun 23, 2020
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