Comment - "Dagashiya" is a store selling simple toys and miscellaneous sweets for children. A series of black and white prints depicting the life of children in a small town around 1960s, perhaps the time of the artist's childhood. There is a typical "Yakko kite" ("Yakko-dako", "奴凧") hanging avove the sweets. The woodblock and presentation of sujet are more or less set in Western traditions.

This story is set in rural Japan and is about a grandpa his grandson Yuuta ('Grandpa's Town', 'Ojīchan no machi', 1991). At the beginning of the story Yuuta and his mother try to get grandpa to move in with them after the death of grandma because they believe he is lonely. Little Yuuta goes through a day with his grandpa and they go to the bath house and he meet a lot of his grandpa’s friends in their travels. At the end of the story Yuuta realizes that grandpa is not alone or lonely. There are several translations into English, and even a bilingual one.


Series - "Memory of Childhood", stand alone woodblock print of book illustrations


Artist - see Biography


Signature - "T. Nomura" signed in pencil on the lower margin. Artist's seal lower right, next to signature


Publisher -  ~


Image Size - 32.5cm X 33.5cm    (12.8" x 13.2")


Condition - single sheet; black monochrome woodblock print;