Japanese Fairy-tale Book

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This item shows a colourful cover with illustrations of black ants carrying red and yellow pots. Beside them are red flowers. At the top of the cover, there is a coloured drawing of two children. One child is waving and the other is wearing a hat and necklace. In the background of the drawing are seagulls, ocean, sailboats, trees, and a lighthouse. The binding is red and has black flowers with gold centres. There is a blue stripe on the right side of the back cover. In the middle of the back cover is a gold and blue Roman statue head and design. On the spine at the bottom is the Arabic number one. This books contains both coloured and black and white illustrations of people and animals. At the beginning, there is a little Japanese kanji characters. However, the majority of the book is katakana in the first half and hiragana in the second half. On two pages near the beginning of the book there are kanji and katakana characters written in pen. This is a fairy-tale book for children, published in 1927.

Toragoro Nimi came to Vancouver in 1905 at the age of 15. He started working in sawmills and planer mills in Vancouver. Then his brother followed. In 1918, Toragoro and his father bought a drug store at 331 Powell Street in Vancouver. It was named "Nimi Shokai". Asians were not allowed to dispense western medications at that time; only Japanese-style herbal medications. So, Nimi Shokai sold non-prescription and Japanese herbal medications, Kodak cameras, film, 78 records of popular songs, pancake makeup, Shaffer pens, gift items, and binoculars.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

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