Show your Japanese cups

**TAHD2000** · 06-03-2022, 06:41 PM

Sometimes the object you have as a collector have someting extra that gives your imagination a little extra boost.

This is a set of 3 cups with their wooden box, they are given as "Recognition of Official Merit" from the city of Hiroshima around the time of the 1904-05 Russo Japanese war. At this time the people didnt move as much as we do today so most probably this set of cups never left the Hiroshima area.

So could the fire damage come from the A-bomb fires or was it just saved from the bon fire that grandpa did when he wanted to clear out som old junk? The imagination always want a nice storry so its easy to go with the first scenario! :-)

Pleas could someone help me translate the sticker on the lid, maybe it can say where the shop were.

**rra227** · 06-03-2022, 11:07 PM

Fantastic! Rich A. in Pa.

**Nick Komiya** · 06-04-2022, 11:47 AM

The label is the shop's business profile saying, "Supplier to various government agencies for Gold, Silver and Wooden cups, plaques, commemorative badges, shrine and temple accessories", followed by an address in Hiroshima, shop name of Izumoya and proprietor name of Eijiro Kubota and phone number.

**TAHD2000** · 06-04-2022, 12:10 PM

Thank you Nick, much apreciated that you could translate the label. :-)
As i supposed it would be a shop from Hiroshima supplying official gifts and assoceries.

**Mosin25** · 06-11-2022, 07:58 PM

These are my two. I'm not really going for a collection, but I do really the two that I picked up. One is a Japanese airplane flying over Mt. Fuji with gold trim on the rim, and the other is a Japanese soldier with a rifle guarding a castle, with some kind of song inscribed inside the cup. Not the best pictures, but they're packed away for now for an upcoming move.