I have this lovely Japanese Cannon label, and I new that there is one more version, but while surfing the internet I discovered that there are few more...

This one is mine:

I also know this one:

But it seems that there are few more...



Box size

Box size - different facial expressions

 

...and Packet size

Got this beautiful one!

Torn Torpedo boat

Red Torpedo boat

...and green Torpedo boat

 

The Japanese Military labels are one of my favorites

"No match for progress": the story of Wang Yuxiang : a Phillumenist from China

Beijing collector Wang Yuxiang and his matchbox collection.
Photos by Wang Ru / China Daily

According to the article: "In the 1990s, there were about 40 match factories across China. According to Wang, only three are still producing matches now.The existing match factories, like the oldest one in Beijing, now only produce orders from wedding planning companies and hotels. Some so-called match companies are in fact souvenir producers."
Read more: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2012-11/19/content_15941650.htm

Another interesting articl of the China Daily  about Mr. Wang Yuxiang: 

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2012-11/19/content_15940433.htm

Bats and Monkeys - aren't they relatives? :)

A link to a website with some cute Penguin Japanese labels

http://24ki.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2011-09-29
(all right reserved to the owner of labels)

Aren't they cute? 

More various "Find the differences" Japanese old labels - Military, Navy, Automobiles, Elephants, Bats, Patriotics

Two old Japanese c1900s matchbox label depicting an officer & his crew

The Swedish source:

Some recent old beautiful Ship and Military Japanese labels

3 Japanese advertising labels of 2 Buses and 1 Car labels

Some new "find the differences" Japanese old labels in my collection

Bulldog and Monkey are riding their Bicycle

The Checkpoint Guards

The Bottle of Peace (Salam)

Japanese set of big (Packet) labels of Utagawa Toyokuni and Suzuki Harunobu

Utagawa Toyokuni (1769, Edo - February 24, 1825, Edo), was a great master of ukiyo-e, known in particular for his Kabuki actor prints. He was one of the heads of the renowned Utagawa school of Japanese woodblock artists, and was the person who really moved it to the position of great fame and power it occupied for the rest of the nineteenth century.

Suzuki Harunobu (鈴木 春信^?, 1725? – July 7, 1770) was a Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style. He was an innovator, the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu used many special techniques, and depicted a wide variety of subjects, from classical poems to contemporary beauties. Like many artists of his day, Harunobu also produced a number of shunga, or erotic images. During his lifetime and shortly afterwards, many artists imitated his style. A few, such as Harushige, even boasted of their ability to forge the work of the great master. Much about Harunobu's life is unknown.

2 Japanese sets of Senryū matchbox labels (not mine...)

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