Hikifuda (40 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: very good. n.p. [190-?]. Colour lithograph broadside 37x51cm. Minimal signs of use. This busy and cheerful Hikifuda - handbill - is an advertisement and a menu, seemingly for all seasons. I'm told what's on offer is side dishes. A typical Hikifuda in that businesses had their own details put in the centre panel. I've tr…

Zustand: very good. Tokyo? Iwaya c1890? 27x38cm illustrated lithograph. Folded and frayed around the edges; pretty decent. Iwaya Matsuhei was a promoter's promoter. After a few false starts - the odd incendiary rebellion, lawsuit and bankruptcy - he got into tobacco in the 1880s. Importing and learning from American companies li…

Zustand: very good. Osaka 1891 (Meiji 24). Colour woodcut 38x26cm. Two horizontal folds, a nice copy. An example of a somewhat western aesthetic style (ie inspired by Japan) applied to the authoritive detail of a currency note or share certificate. In other words, here is a company or product to be trusted. Absolutely.Hikifuda -…

Zustand: very good. Osaka 1907 (Meiji 40). 26x38cm colour lithograph. A nice copy. You'd think this smug gang of dandies - the seven lucky gods - would be advertising fashion but they are peddling some sort of pharmaceuticals made by Tsuchiya Rikujiro out of Tsukobo in the Okayama area. The drug trade is treating them well.Hikif…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [c1900?]. Woodcut broadside 28x24cm. A nice copy. An intriguing and to me mysterious handbill from Matsumoto - a city in the Nagano prefecture in central Honshu. It seems clear it offers - in some rustic, or perhaps reverse way - what the well dressed man needs. Superior quality is promised but I'm stump…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [c1910?]. 26x38cm colour woodcut. Margins browned. I don't know what Takahashiya sold, I'm sorry, but I can tell you that Taromaru is in Toyama and that this patriotic hikifuda celebrates the royal family who in turn celebrate Japan taking to the air. That's the crown prince, soon to be emperor Taisho an…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [1931]. colour broadside 53x38cm. Folded, with stab holes indicating it was once in an album. A vivid and heart warming portrait of the urban well-to-do and the rewards of being well-to-do: modernity and shopping. It can be seen as mother daughter life lessons. Many such images in Japan are moral lessons…

Zustand: very good. 1906 (Meiji 39). Colour lithograph 38x26cm. I'm sure this insufferable couple are appalled to find they are advertising cotton, nails and general merchandise. I suspect that picture behind them is the view through their stateroom window. They must have thought they would showcase luxury travel and travel good…

Zustand: very good. np [191-?]. Colour lithograph 26x38cm. A nice copy. Presumably this hallucinatory hikifuda dates from around the first world war. At first I feared that the 'clay' of 'clay pigeons' had been lost in translation but these dopey looking young soldiers are concentrating rather than thick or stoned. The young men…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [c1900] 26x38cm colour woodcut. Small knick from a top corner; a nice copy. Bustling modern Japan is celebrated in this advertisement for the Japanese and western liquor merchants Goto Shokai. I presume it's the trademarks of the brands they handle that are displayed.These hikifuda - small posters or han…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [192-?]. Colour lithograph 26x38cm. A bit creased, stab holes on the right indicating it was once in an album. A printed code number on the back. A glamorous pair of Taisho women doing what urban Japanese did best: throng the busy exciting streets and shop. These hikifuda - handbills or small advertising…

Zustand: very good. np [190-?]. Colour lithograph 25x37cm. Pretty good. An almost average street scene in late Meiji Japan but: without the telegraph poles and power lines, bowler hats and cyclist it could be a street scene generations earlier. Hikifuda - small posters or handbills often handed out as seasonal gifts - were usual…

Zustand: very good. n.p. n.d. [c1880 to 1900?]. Colour woodcut 24x30cm. Rumpled with an old vertical fold. From what I can figure out - which is not much with my complete illiteracy when it comes to handwritten text - this advertises a Fukuoka bookshop that stocks Japanese, Chinese and Western books. The westerner is the fat bas…

Zustand: very good. c1900? 40x50cm colour woodcut. A singular and baffling, to me, handbill or hikifuda for a patent medicine for women that expelled a hundred poisons and cured ailments that any woman was likely to suffer.It's the villain in the corner that stumps me. Since I can't read the text I have no idea who he is nor wha…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [Kobe?], Nakayama Taiyodo [1906?]. Broadside 35x34cm printed rainbow in red, green and purple on crepe (chirimen). Old folds, a couple of small holes in a fold, pretty good. What the hell is Jockey Club Essence? Never mind. Fin-de-siecle belles printed in rainbow on crepe; what more could you ask for? Na…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [192-?]. Colour lithograph 26x38cm. A bit rumpled, stab holes on the right indicating it was once in an album. A printed code number on the back. The vivid and exciting world of groceries beautifully depicted. These hikifuda - handbills or small advertising posters - were often produced with blank frames…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [187-?]. 36x49cm colour woodcut. Bug chewed and carefully repaired, either some time ago or done using old paper. This large and still quite handsome steamship advertises ships, routes and fares from Fushikiminato, now part of Takaoka City. Takaoka Museum illustrates their copy online and it is just as c…

Zustand: very good. n.p.n.d. (1914). Colour lithograph 53x38cm. Stab holes in the top margin, catalogue number on the back, showing it was once in a specimen book. Folded rather than creased. That woman and child are modelled on the crown princess and her first son - Hirohito - as they were a few years before. She is adventurous…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [190-?]. 26x38cm colour woodcut. I guess that if a strapping sumo wrestler chooses to wear your shoes you know they must be sturdy. I guess the pint-size deity dancing on hs arm is a fukusuke but I don't get the connection, the significance of the hat, and neither do I know who he - the wrestler - is. I…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [1911]. Colour lithograph and woodcut 52x38cm. Stab holes in the margin show it was once in an album. Horizontal fold; quite good. The picture is lithographed, the calendar woodcut. An extra psychedelic extravaganza in experimental colour showing lucky god Ebisu being chauffered by Daikokuten. These two…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [c1900?]. Colour wood engraving? 26x36cm. Minor signs of use, quite good. This handsome ship hikifuda - small poster or handbill - advertises something I can't read. It uses the western technique of wood engraving, a technique that had a brief run in commercial printing between traditional woodcuts and l…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [c1900?]. Colour woodcut 26x38cm. Rumpled with a couple of small repairs to the edges; quite decent. Stab holes in the right margin showing it was once in an album. A bustling handsome print produced for merchants of imported goods. These hikifuda - small posters or handbills - were usually produced with…

Zustand: very good. [Tokyo? 1908-09]. Colour lithograph 265x375mm. Old vertical folds, stabholes in the right margin and tips clipped from the left corners indicating it was once part of an album. A pretty good copy. Tsumura Juntendo - still in business - began selling herbal remedies in Tokyo in the 1890s and 'Help' - Tsumura's…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [1900]. Colour woodcut 26x38cm. Minor stain, really only noticeable in the bottom margin. This smart hikifuda - large handbill or small poster - advertises, I think, the Shimosuwa department store Niimura Shoten where they sell Japanese and western textiles. Shimosuwa is a town in Nagano, east of Tokyo.…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [190-?]. Colour lithograph 52x39cm. A bit creased or rumpled with a couple of closed marginal tears; a pretty good copy. I presumed this exquisite modern young woman was advertising kimono silk and perhaps she does in other examples of this advertising handbill cum poster. These things were usually produ…

Zustand: very good. n.p. [c1930?]. Colour lithograph 26x38cm. Quite good. These blooming infants are scampering into battle for Japanese and foreign liquors. These hikifuda - small posters or handbills - were often produced with a blank text panel and the customer, usually a retailer, had their own details over printed. The patr…