So, if we talk about "Find the differences", so, please Find the differences!

The Joker with the explorer finger

Same producer - different animal 

Same motif - different producer 

The Baby, the Angel and the Soldier

I wish I could read Japanese...It would have made my blog more accurate 

2 special labels that I looked for a long long time, so finally I have them !!!

A very interesting way to ride a horse...

General Kuroki Tamemoto

Count Tamemoto Kuroki GCMG (May 3, 1844 – February 3, 1923)
was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He was the head of the Japanese First Army during the Russo-Japanese War; and his forces enjoyed a series of successes during the Manchurian fighting at the Battle of Yalu River, the Battle of Liaoyang, the Battle of Shaho and the Battle of Mukden.

A very nice set of Japanese War Propaganda WoodBlock Printed Matchbox Labels (not mine) sold on eBay the other day

 

Some nice Japanese Propaganda matchbox labels (not mine) found somewere over the rainbow

The Japanese Warriors - themes associated with Wars, Military, Patriotism etc. are very popular among the collectors of Japanese labels

The Samurai

Samurai (侍?), usually referred to in Japanese as bushi (武士?, [bu͍ꜜ.ɕi̥]) or buke (武家?), were the military nobility of medieval and early-modern Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany persons in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean "those who serve in close attendance to the nobility," the pronunciation in Japanese changing to saburai. According to Wilson, an early reference to the word "samurai" appears in the Kokin Wakashū (905–914), the first imperial anthology of poems, completed in the first part of the 10th century (wikipedia - all right reserved).

 

 

The Japanese War Officers

How can an officer win the war with a baby in his hands?



Another beautiful Japanese Cannon label in my Cannon versions collection

I usualy don't collect Chinese matchbox labels, but when I saw these Chinese patriotic labels, I couldn't ignore them. The least I can do, is to show them to the world...

 

 

Does a Japanese military officer can conqueror the world on his bicycle ?

3 more Globe Japanese labels were added lately to my collection!

Is "find the differences" sound familiar to you?

Chiwen

This is the fish-like, hornless dragon with a very truncated body and large, wide mouth usually found along roof ridges (as if swallowing the roof beams). His presence on roofs is also said to guard against fires. A paragraph in the Tang dynasty book Su Shi Yan Yi (苏氏演义) by Su E (苏鹗) says that a mythical sea creature called the chi wen [sic] was put on the roofs of buildings during the Han dynasty to protect the structures from fire hazards. This dragon is still found on the roofs of traditional Chinese homes today, protecting the inhabitants from fires. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).

2 Chiwen labels - old and newer

A Crab or a Flower?

The "F" label is missing...

I finally put my hand on two more Military Japanese Cannon labels

Do you remember this post of mine: cannon-label-i-new , so I finally put my hand on two more Military Japanese Cannon labels.

The Japanese Soldiers