Paper toy
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Printed paper
Measurements
110 mm (length of packet); 74 mm (width of packet); 50 - 100 mm (diameter of flowers)
Place of origin
Japan
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 660319
Summary
Three packets of Japanese water flowers. One packet is red with a paper inside containing four round coloured paper flowers and two green stems with red flowers on. The green packet contains the same and the blue packet has four round flowers and one long stemmed one. On the front of each packet is printed in dark blue 'DIRECTIONS/ PLACE ONE OR TWO/IN A FINGER BOWL/ FILLED WITH WATER/ WATCH THE RESULT/ MADE IN JAPAN'. Around this writing is a border of leaves and flowers. The back of the red packet has a coloured picture of people being carried across water and others playing on the shore. The green packet has two ladies and a man walking over a bridge. On the blue packet are three ladies standing under a tree beside a lake. Total number of items is twenty threee