American Japanese Customs Coloring & Talking Book

American Japanese Customs Coloring & Talking Book

Scenes of American and Japanese culture

Thin pamphlet printed in Mustard yellow and Navy ink on cream paper. Cover details include two children holding weapons, one on the right dressed in traditional Japanese clothing with a katana, beside a silhouette of Japan and the other on the left in Western wear, wearing a sidearm, beside an irregular silhouette roughly resembling America.
10 slightly translucent pages with English, Romaji, and Japanese printed in Black ink, alongside full-page illustrations of the phrases on each page.

Charles E Tuttle Company

Fagaye Seck, John Scharf

Pamphlet, paper and ink, 8.5"x11.5"

English and Japanese

Coloring Book

981

Mustard, White, Navy Blue and Black

Good condition; a tiny bit of browning to paper.

Copyright in Japan 1952, 1953, 1966

Shōwa Era

Pages on the left depict scenes labeled American, and those on the right are labeled Japanese. Each page has four lines of text, with the language of the depicted culture on the left side of the page. The top two lines are in Romanized letters, while the lower two are in Hiragana.

Noub Sugi

Tokyo, Japan & Rutland, Vermont

English & Japanese

Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries, Rochester N.Y.

"each book of this series [...] is designed, like the present one, to serve both as a delightfully different coloring book and as a first step in international understanding-- to introduce the child to some of the differences in the ways and customs of his country and Japan."

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Charles E. Tuttle Company

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