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The Japanese patriotic labels are of the most beautiful and colorful labels that I have

The Baby, the Angel and the Soldier

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

My first Chinese language lesson (An amazingly beautiful artistic Japanese label indeed)

 and of course 4 other versions of this lovely label (not mine...):

The worms have visited this labels...

The Monkeys demonstrate against the Match Government

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?



Do you remember the race between the monkey and the train?

Read more: The Race

So I got one of the lovely labels in it:

Some beautiful Patriotic and other themes "Find the differences" Japanese labels were added to my collection lately...

And now for something completely different (as said the Monty Python comedians) - One of my most loved label on earth: The race of the monkey and the Train

...and there are more versions out there of the same idea (not yet mine):

The Packet size of my Box label

A small monkey version

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

Look at this amazing Piece of Chinese ART

Look at the accuracy! Look at the choose of colors! See each detail!  Absolutely amazing piece of art on this Japanese matchbox label...Click on the photo and see it in it's original size.

Manufacter: JiXiang match factory
Date: Before 1925

Orugin: China

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...

The Japanese Warriors!!!

The Patriotic Globed Elephant with the "Five colors flag" of old China in his trunk

Another beautiful patriotic Japanese label

More Japanese Swastika patriotic label

The "Five-Colored Flag" of the Republic of China

Very old matchbox labels from UK - aren't they also beautiful !

Quis separabit 

Quis separabit

(Latin: Who will separate [us]?) is a motto of the Royal Dragoon Guards,[1] the Order of St. Patrick, The Royal Ulster Rifles, The London Irish Rifles, the Irish Guards[2] and the North Irish Horse. The phrase also appears on the Seal of South Carolina.

It was the motto of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards,[3] a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1922 to 1992. It was the motto of the Connaught Rangers, a British Army regiment, from its amalgamation in 1881 until it was disbanded in 1922. Prior to this, it was the motto of the precursor regiment of the Rangers, the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) which was founded in 1793. It was also the motto of the Royal Ulster Rifles and the Ulster Defence Regiment.

It was the motto of the former Government of Northern Ireland and appeared on the province's defunct coat of arms. It is also the motto of the Ulster Defence Association, a proscribed loyalist paramilitary in Northern Ireland.[4] The source is the Vulgate translation of Romans, 8:35: "Quis nos separabit a caritate Christi...", translated as "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?".