Vintage Japanese Postcard Museum

“Fish Street-vender in Japan”, c. 1920.

“Yamagata Palace” onsen-ryokan at Taka-yu, Minami-Murayama, Yamagata, c. 1920.

“Bull-Dog Sauce” New Year’s advertising & propaganda postcard, 1938.

Battle of the Yalu River (1894), propaganda postcard, c. 1905.

I.J.N. O-5 (former SM UC-99) war prize submarine, c. 1920.

Meiji-brand “Cream Caramel” advertising postcard, c. 1935.

“Packing Granger & Co.’s ‘Lion Brand’ packages teas in Japan”, c. 1910.

“Imperial Head-Quarters during the [First] China-Japan War”, Hiroshima, c. 1910.

“Dried bonito dealer”, c. 1920.

Chemistry Laboratory, c. 1940.

“Scene at the Blackmer Home”, Tokyo, c. 1920.

“Sendai Christian Orphanage, Girls’ Cottages”, Sendai, c. 1910.

Cape Inubosaki lighthouse, Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, Higeta Shoyu Co. advertising postcard, c. 1930.

Matsudaya Hotel, Yuda Spa, Yamaguchi Prefecture, c. 1930.

Otokonoko (“young boy”) sumo “wrestler”, c. 1910.

Hitachi color TV console advertising postcard, c. 1970.

Kikkoman brand Soy Sauce (history), c. 1930.

Omote-cho Palace of Prince Chichibu, Akasaka, Tokyo, c. 1940.

Steam freight locomotive (6700-Class/6760-series), c. 1920.

Japan’s first golf course, Mt. Rokko, Kobe, c. 1920.

“Gekimetsu” (“Annihilation”) motion picture advertising postcards, 1930.

Nanko Temple, Kobe

Commodore Perry and the “Expedition to Japan” (1853) souvenir postcards, c. 1920.

Mikawaya ryokan, Yotsuya-Hakone, c. 1920.