Saturday, March 17, 2007

"Luxyry Items" in 1950's in Japan

When I walk some Flea Markets in U.S. I find many interestings things which we did not have in some era.
Such as Toys, to have toys in 1950's in Japan was luxyry. The ones we have mostly very simple and cheap stuff.
Fifty toy pistols in a box which my carpenter found behind the ceiling of my house in 1980's were hidden by my mother when I was ten years old. They are mostly made of tins.
(I keep them because some people want those stuff.)

In Japan, during the period from late 1930's to 1950's , there was a blnak of luxyry items.
They had no leeway to spend both an individual and the nation.

Golf clubs, watchs, electric model trains, cameras especially movie cameras and other sporting gears were mostly lack from Japanese history of culture.
American 50' were very rich they had everything.

But I found some of them marked "made in Japan" or "made in occupied Japan" even they have
some Amrican brand names. In Japan we did not have them.

To decorateing those lauxyry items which I brought back from flea markets , I feel I came back
to 50's and recover the "Luxyry".
My favourite item is a set of kid's cowboy gear, two heavy metal pistols with a leather belt and holsters,a deer skin vest and a silver star.

See, http://www/japaneseweapons.com

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