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[Ephemera - Candy wrappers ã è "å ] [Collection of 560 candy wrappers, labels, and 55 decorated boxes, early 20th Century] Japan The wrappers and labels range from small (2.5 x 3 cm) to large (32 x 45 cm), although the majority are somewhere in the middle. The boxes have been carefully compressed and, along with the wrappers and labels, are mounted onto 291 loose leaves of light brown paper, 30 x 22.5 cm, to one side only. Many are elegantly printed woodblocks employing traditional Japanese botanical motifs, while others combine traditional and contemporary design elements with contemporary methods of printing. Printed in clear and saturated colors, with occasional flashes of metallic ink, the wrappers, labels and boxes in this collection entice and charm. These are not just candy wrappers as we know them today - packaging to entice buyers that is barely glanced at and quickly thrown away. These are paper boxes and labels that are gift wrapping - souvenirs from areas of Japan that represent a regional crop or product, such as grapes from Yamanashi prefecture used to make jelly candy. Besides advertising the expected fruit flavored sweets, such as orange, lemon, cherry, grape, and apple, other tastes on offer are chestnut, walnut, honey, lychee, and even parsnip and wasabi. Wrappers feature colorful illustrations of the fruit or nut - fig, persimmon, pineapple - used to make the sweet. Others recreate a landscape or flower that evokes the atmosphere of the region. Most seem to be made using traditional ingredients, such as anko 餡å , which is made from a red bean, azuki or adzuki, å° è± "small bean." "Freppe ã ã ã ã ," lit. "red thing," a word rarely used in current day Japan, is the Ainu word for Lingonberries or cowberries. In Japanese it is kokemomo è "æ¡ , which is why there are illustrations of red berries with green leaves on the Freppe YÅ kan ã ã ã ã ç¾ ç¾ wrappers. These are souvenirs from Sakhalin Island, known in Japan as Karafuto æ ºå¤ª, located north of the Japanese island Hokkaido, and where indigineous Ainu people occupied the southern part. Collected from small candy makers and larger firms located all over Japan, as well as local shops and department stores, such as Matsuzakaya Dept. Store æ ¾å å± in KÅ fu ç" åº . A wrapper for Sakura Shop's Persimmon Red Bean Jellies (Sakuraya no Kokera YÅ kan æ«»å± ã ®æ ¿ç¾ ç¾ ) from Hiroshima 廣å evokes a peaceful fall day, with Japanese maple leaves, deer and the Torii Shinto shrine gate at Miyajima immersed in water, rendered in deep brown and navy. Across the top is a line of text announcing it as a prize winner at the 8th National Confectionery Show Daihachikai Zenkokugashi Amedai HinpyÅ kai ç 8å å… å ½è "å é£ å¤§å" è ä¼ (held in Showa 6, 1931). Other themes are not as lyrical. An illustration of the Emperor above one of the Battleship Mikasa ä ç adorns the wrapper for Mikasa YÅ kan ä ç ç¾ ç¾ , a product of the Yokosuka æ ªé è naval district. The Mikasa was launched in 1900 and participated in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-5 and is the last remaining pre-dreadnought battleship in the world. A second wrapper features a design of flying planes, with the third character in the name replaced by the shape of a plane and the candy is called HikÅ ki YÅ kan é£ è¡ æ ç¾ ç¾ [Airplane Jellies]. A label that features a worker against the backdrop of a factory with gear shapes around him is selling KÅ sei YÅ kan æ ç" ç¾ ç¾ [Reform Jellies.] A collection assembled almost certainly before the war with some wrappers going back to the early 20th century; mostly from the teens, twenties and the thirties. Although chocolate bars have been sold in Japan since the nineteen teens, these wrappers hail from a time before the takeover of chocolate and the wave of advertising that ramped up in intensity in Japan in the 1950s during a period that has been known as the "chocolate wars." YÅ kan ç¾ ç¾ as a souvenir began in the Meiji era (1868-1912), when progress in manufactur. N° de ref. del artículo 89757
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