Japanese Folk Toys (Kyōdo gangu shū : haru)
A 1935 Osaka publication of Japanese folk toys, issued by the Kyōdo no Hikarisha press as a volume of painted plates for collectors and students of regional crafts. The plates show painted toys such as a carp-riding child, daruma dolls and a wooden battledore with courtly figures, drawn in flat, saturated colour on cream paper. A designer could take the bold orange and red palette, the simple flat shapes and the stamped seal marks as a model for folk-style graphics.
