Ephemera and Miscellaneous
IHL Cat. #2436
Advertisement for Isshin kōsha approved lodging when visiting Konpira Shrine, c. 1875-1890
unknown artist
possibly published by Isshin kōsha, a type of pilgrim cooperative
一新搆社御定宿
金刀比羅 蒸気出航所
image: 8 3/8 x 13 3/4 in.
sheet: 8 3/4 x 14 5/8 in.
IHL Cat. #557
Map of Ise Shrine Pilgrimage Route, 1892
伊勢参宮順路之図
unknown artist
image: 8 5/16 x 12 1/4 in.
sheet: 9 x 13 in.
IHL Cat. #2067
Illustration of a Sawyer, 1915
Kobiki no zu 木挽の図
Anamorphosis picture appearing in the July 1915 issue of the magazine 浮世絵 Ukiyo-e, unknown artist
published by 浮世絵社 (Ukiyoe sha)
scabbard print 鞘繪 (saya-e)
sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.
IHL Cat. #1286
Patent Medicine Advertisement - From Science and Experience: Essential Medicines for Health,
undated, unknown artist
image: 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.
sheet: 7 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.
IHL Cat. #2659
Third National Industrial Exhibition Bronze Medal Award for Exquisitely Skillful Performance, 1890
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IHL Cat. #1764
Kiyomizu Temple Collection: Folding Screen with Geisha and Dancer Illustrations, Reduced Size, undated
(元清水成就院藏歌舞妓踊圗屏風縮写)
unknown artist
image: 8 3/8 x 13 3/4 in.
sheet: 8 3/4 x 14 5/8 in.
IHL Cat. #1543
Votive print (#18) for the Votive Women's Association 納札 婦人會 picturing Lake Hamana 濱各湖 (top) Futaminoura
二見浦 (bottom)
Takeda Keihō (1873-1942)
nōsatsu (Japanese shrine and temple votive slip)
image: 11 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.
sheet: 11 11/16 x 7 7/8 in.
IHL Cat. #1848
Battle on roof of Hōryūkaku, from the play Tale of the Eight Dog Heroes,
c. late 1800s
Hakkenden Hōryūkaku 八犬傳芳流閣
unknown artist
2nd sheet of construction toy print (kumiage-e; omocha-e)
image: 13 1/6 x 8 3/4 in.
sheet: 13 7/8 x 9 1/2 in.
IHL Cat. #2090
明治廿八平之京都, 1895
Meiji 28, Hirano, Kyoto
Poster announcing the Fourth National Industrial Exposition in Kyoto in celebration of the 1100 year anniversary of the city’s founding,
unknown artist
image and sheet: 22 x 15 3/8 in.
IHL Cat. #2038
Holiday Card depicting Battleship Island (Gunkanijima),
c. late 1930s-early 1940s
(site of Mitsubishi Hashima Coal Mine)
unknown artist
image: 5 9/16 x 3 11/16 in.
sheet: 5 5/8 x 3 13/16 in.
IHL Cat. #2229a-w
Picture Card Show
In Honor of Meritorious Deeds, 1942
紙芝居
殊勲の蔭に
Nonoguchi Shigeru 野々口重
[lithograph; 紙芝居 kamishibai]
published by Nippon kyōiku kamishibai kyōkai
(Japanese Educational Picture Story Association)
image: 10 1/2 x 15 in.
sheet: 10 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.
IHL Cat. #2585
Western Clown Show, undated
unknown artist
西洋のどうけ芝居
IHL Cat. #2514
Circus (detail), artist and publisher Hasegawa Sonokichi
The print likely served as an advertisement for the Italian impresario Giuseppe Chiarini's Royal Italian Circus which performed in Japan (including a performance for Emperor Meiji) in the summer of 1886. His troupe included acrobatic young women on horses, as depicted above, and wild animals. Chiariini's circus was not the first to perform in Japan with Richard Risley ("Professor Risley") bringing his circus company in March 1864 and the Frenchman Louis Soullier bringing his circus to Japan in 1871.
image and sheet: 6 3/4 x 9 3/16 in.
IHL Cat. #2586
Street Clown Show, undated
unknown artist
しんぱん どうけ尽