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Kodomo asobi gajo, (子供遊び画帖, Children's Games)

Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1888
Maker: Kobayashi Eitaku (小林永濯)
Engraver: Kimura Tokutaro (木村徳太郎)
Object number: O.48.9
DescriptionChildren playing with shadow plays. The children in the foreground are using Soumatoh (走馬灯, a running lantern). Soumatoh is a lantern from China, designed so that shadow puppets rotate. They were imported to Japan in the Edo period and were a popular summer evening pastime.