Odd People's Occupations on Japanese labels

The Samurai

The Homeless

The Tree Milkers

The odd Pilgrims

No words (what do they do!?!)

Kids activities are always fanny and interesting

The Happy Student

Don't ask me what this girl wear on her head...

The Sports-kid

The Crawler

The birds Catcher

Surabaya is Indonesia's second-largest city with a population of over 2.7 million, and the capital of the province of East Java. Wikipedia

Japanese Senryū labels

The full set

The sad girl who likes yellow candy

Senryū (川柳^?, literally 'river willow') is a Japanese form of short poetry . Senryū tend to be about human weakness. Senryū are often cynical or darkly humorous.

Senryū is named after Edo period haikai poet Senryū Karai (柄井川柳, 1718-1790), whose collection Haifūyanagidaru (誹風柳多留^?) launched the genre into the public consciousness.

Senryū is traditionally written with karumi, lightness. The ability to produce cynical and dark humor or irony out of common things or people, and the ability to laugh at oneself is karumi. (source: Wikipedia)

At the bar

The Shop keeper

The Baseball players

A rainy night

At the Tea Room

The Kitchen Moover

Taking the Bulldog out

My new favorites - Japanese advertising labels dated 1930's-40's

Be careful on the streets

Playing Billiard at the Bar

Be careful on the streets

The Librarian

More Japanese labels of human professions

The bold man with the BIG shoes

The lady at the window

The drunk Sumo man with the smoker on his right hand
(Sumo style advertising for a nutritious tonic)

The fabrics painter

The Moon reader

The Frog keeper

Japanese Matchboxes labels of human professions

The Ostrich rider

The Sailor

The Fisherman

Another Fisherman

The Photographer

The Swimmer

The Outside-Barber

The Pagoda Dreamer

The Teacher