No noticeable damage, but this is a used book, so please refrain from purchasing if you are concerned about its condition. Don't miss this opportunity! ✳︎ Quarterly Ginka No. 30 ✳︎ Publisher: Bunka Publishing Bureau ✳︎ Publication Year: 1977 ✳︎ Total Pages: 188 pages ✳︎ Size: A5 Feature 1: Glass Paintings / Yasuhiro Kobayashi Small Glass Paintings by Ceramic Plaques / Kumeo Yamada About Glass Paintings / Rokuro Uchida Miscellaneous Thoughts on Glass Paintings / Narashige Koide Glass Paintings / Haruo Sato Painting Glass Paintings / Kumeo Yamada Feature 2: Nostalgic Wooden Toys of Tokyo / Michiaki Hiroi; Masaaki Hiroi; Kiyoshi Sonobe Wooden Toys of Tokyo = The Story of a Craftsman's Family / Fukiko Hosoi Young People's Work: Wood and Lacquer / Yasuhiro Kobayashi We are struggling, but we love this work / Yushiro Kojima; Kumeo Yamada Nothing is wrong = The Man of the Great Tree, the Book of the Great Tree "Jion" / Hideo Hata "Because I love to create" / Katsuhiko Ushiro Everything we wear is beautiful / Yukio Fukazawa A Curious Know-It-All = A Fearless Man Who Maintained Defiance and Satire, Gaikotsu Miyatake / Eiichi Tanizawa; Shoichi Minoura Salt / Akira Tabuchi Salt Fields and Salt Making = Visiting the Phantom Salt Nishiya's Books = Pioneers of Illustrated Books from the Meiji to Taisho Eras / Kumeo Yamada Nishiya's Books / Sakichi Yagi "I am the one" = Regarding a Record by Akiko Yano: The Honor of Self-Publishing / Takahisa Okiyama Taking the Patash Star / Tristan Drem; Yoshiharu Nishikawa; Yuriko Hirose Ginka Budding Diary Japanese Taste Collection: Let's Eat Cherries / Akira Tabuchi Book Miscellany / Takeo Takei Introduction to Past Issues of the Quarterly "Ginka" Private Mailbox/Readers' Thirty Sayings / Takezo Yoshida; Fujio Sakai Non-Wasteful Writings / Fukiko Hosoi The summer 1977 issue of the quarterly Ginka featured an article titled "Nostalgic Wooden Toys of Tokyo." All the wooden toys introduced were made by the brothers Michiaki Hiroi and Masaaki Hiroi. The editor of Ginka, who had been researching "Wooden Toys of Michinoku" the previous year, happened to meet Michiaki Hiroi, the elder brother, in Sendai. They learned that the Hiroi brothers had learned from their father, Kenjiro Hiroi, and could create 200 types of tops and toys that followed the Edo tradition, which began to be made in the Meiji era. ◎ ⤵︎ Search Terms Toy Store Hiroi Kenjiro Kijishi (Wooden Craftsman)