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.48.2
DescriptionThe children in the foreground are playing with a koma-mawashi (独楽回し, a spinning top), while the children at the back are playing with soap bubbles. Soap bubble sellers appeared from the Edo period onwards, and as domestic production of soap flourished in the Meiji period, soap bubble games spread to various parts of the country and are assumed to have been a common pastime for children.
