WOODBLOCK, Japanese.

A well-preserved hikifuda woodblock (145 x 410 x 16 mm.), advertising a decongesting medicine, carved text on one side.

Kōshū Hino [today’s Shiga prefecture]: n.d.

A useful teaching tool for Asian printing history, this woodblock employed to produce handbill advertisements for a medicine called Kagen ketan [Control Throat Mucus]. This format of handbill, flyer, or inserted promotion is called a hikifuda 引札. The text claims the medicine derives from the recipe of a prominent doctor. We have not been able to decipher the ink text on the reverse. In near fine condition, with a contemporary paper wrapper bearing handwritten text.

Price: $950.00

Item ID: 11066