Author: Trams (streetcars).
Title: [Otogi Ehon : Densha-Dzukushi].
Description: Tokyo, Seibido? 1914 (Taisho 3). 12x17cm publisher's woodblock colour illustrated wrapper; four double folded leaves with eight colour woodblock prints. An outstanding copy. ¶ The quality of printing in this celebration of the tram goes down hill once we're past the front cover but the cover is worth it, what with the silver printing and sprinkles. And inside there is a too rarely seen view of a boy being knocked off his bike.This is maybe not properly a modern akahon (red book), the ultra cheap and lurid kids books that came out of Osaka but it is a blood relation.

Keywords: graphic art childrens juvenile transport trams streetcars c20th Japan modernism