Unai no tomo [A Child’s Friend]. Vol. n. 1.

Kyoto, Unsodo, Yamada Naosaburo, Meiji 24 (1891)

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25,4 x 17, 5 cm: 62 pp., 52 pp. with ill., ink, colour, silver, gold and mica on paper.

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Seifu Shimizu - entrepreneur, artist and calligrapher - collected Japanese traditional toys and began in 1891 to publish illustrations from his own paintings in a woodblock series. The eventually 10 volume series became a decisive illustrated work on Japanese folk toys.