Comment - This postcard shows a correcly bridled Yakko kite ("yakko dako", "奴凧") with an unusual weird face and hair, and a kite reel. Flying kites is a traditional pasttime for boys on New Year's Day, this postcard is therefore supposed to be a New Year's post card.

The front kanji characters are written separately, therefore it reads "New Year's Greetings" (old fashioned) and not Shōga (正賀) (name, also name of a Japanese province). "YAMASHiTA" (山下) is repeated in kanji on the back of the postcard. Maybe a name for a company.


Series - unknown series


Artist - unknown 20th century shin-hanga artist


Signature - none


Publisher - unknown


Image Size - 7.6cm X 12.7cm   (3 1/2" x 5 1/2") with margins


Condition - single sheet; nishiki-e (cloured woodblock); postcard size