Shinpan kawari utsushi-e (Changing magic lantern pictures: newly carved)

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Shinpan kawari utsushi-e ["Changing magic lantern pictures: newly carved"]

[Creator unidentified].

[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. mid to late Meiji period (1880-90s)?].

A set of six pochibukuro (mini-envelopes) from the Meiji period featuring shikake-e (movable illustrations). Each pochibukuro has inside it a small print that can be slid upwards to change the scene featured on the "face" of the envelope. Four of the envelopes are illustrated with yōkai (spirits or ghosts); when the inner print is slid upwards a yōkai (or a more frightening yōkai than the one already pictured) appears. The prints are housed in their original colour woodblock-printed paper packet.

Six loose woodblock-printed envelopes, each with a sliding inner print. Two of the envelopes are torn (the skull-headed woman and the fox-woman) and one other has a very small tear (the flowers). Small loss to the upper edge of the inner print of the skull-headed woman. Housed in original colour woodblock-printed paper packet. Each envelope measures approximately 7.8 x 3.9 cm.

Shinpan kawari utsushi-e (Changing magic lantern pictures: newly carved)
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