✳︎ Book Title: Quarterly Ginka No. 30 ✳︎ Publisher: Bunka Publishing Bureau ✳︎ Published: 1977 ✳︎ Total Pages: 188 pages ✳︎ Size: A5 《Contents》 Feature 1: Glass Painting / Nobuhiro Kobayashi Small Glass Paintings by Ceramic Plaques / Kumeo Yamada About Glass Painting / Rokuro Uchida Miscellaneous Thoughts on Glass Painting / Narashige Koide Glass Painting / Haruo Sato Painting Glass / Kumeo Yamada Feature 2: Nostalgic Wooden Toys of Tokyo / Michiaki Hiroi; Masaaki Hiroi; Kiyoshi Sonobe Tokyo Wooden Toys = The Story of a Craftsman's Family / Fukiko Hosoi The Work of Young People: Wood and Lacquer / Nobuhiro Kobayashi We are struggling, but we love this work / Yushiro Kojima; Kumeo Yamada Nothing is wrong = The Man of the Great Tree, the Book of the Great Tree "Jion" / Hideo Hata "Because I love to create" / Katsuhiko Ato Everything we wear is beautiful / Yukio Fukazawa A Curious Know-It-All = A Fearless Man Who Maintained Defiance and Satire, Gaikotsu Miyatake / Eiichi Tanizawa; Shoichi Minoura Salt / Akira Tabuchi Salt Fields and Salt Making = Visiting the Phantom Salt Fields Nishiya's Books = Pioneers of Illustrated Books from the Meiji to Taisho Eras / Kumeo Yamada Nishiya's Books / Sakichi Yagi "I am the one" = Regarding a Record by Akiko Yano: The Honor of Self-Publishing / Takahisa Okiyama Taking the Patashu Star / Tristan Derême; Yoshiharu Nishikawa; Yuriko Hirose Ginka Budding Notes Japanese Taste Collection: Let's Eat Cherries / Akira Tabuchi Book Miscellany / Takeo Takei Introduction to Past Issues of the Quarterly "Ginka" Private Mailbox: Thirty Readers' Comments / Takezo Yoshida; Fujio Sakai Non-Wasteful Writings / Fukiko Hosoi The summer 1977 issue of the quarterly Ginka featured an article titled "Nostalgic Wooden Toys of Tokyo." All the wooden toys introduced were made by the brothers Michiaki Hiroi and Masaaki Hiroi. The editor of Ginka, who had been researching "Wooden Toys of Michinoku" the previous year, happened to meet Michiaki Hiroi, the elder brother, in Sendai. They learned that the Hiroi brothers, who had learned from their father Kenjiro Hiroi, could make 200 different kinds of wooden toys, including tops that followed the Edo tradition and toys that began to be made in the Meiji era. Before the war, the Hiroi family made wooden toys under the sign "Toy Shop Kenjiro Hiroi" in Kameido, Tokyo, and wholesaled them to Asakusa. Kenjiro-san was a very talented person and created new toys one after another. ◎⤵︎ Search Terms Toy Shop Kenjiro Hiroi Woodturner