Dress Up Samurai

Catalog note / 解説

"Musha no Kisekae". Two figures (front and back) for changing clothes. They have choices of six different outfits of famous warriors such as Kato Kiyomasa, Minamoto Yoshitsune, Asahina Saburo, Benkei etc. "Omocha-e" is a toy print for children to cut out and play. Collecting toy prints became quite popular in Japan recently. Although the printing quality and paper quality are inferior, their appeal come from the charming and homely feeling unique to the Omocha-e made in late Edo to Mid-Meiji (1860-1890) periods. The original colors and the "unique tastes" are very different from the ones on the later Omocha-e.