1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook cross but in fact is it

but in fact is it both super useful and quite a pleasure

The lighting conditions for my photos was not very good

The weaving is attached to metal bars on top and bottom

I thought perhaps that this delicately painted watercolor wreath of forget-me-nots and rose buds was sent to commemorate a loss

and handily wired on the back

1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook cross but in fact is itOn the first inside page of this softcover Japanese school book is an inscription from E. Okada at the Shijonawate Police Station in Osaka to Lieutenant Fulton, "In memory of goodbye," dated January 15, 1946 shortly after the end of the WWII and beginning of Allied occupation. It seems a bit of an unusual gift for a Japanese police officer (one assumes) to give an American lieutenant, but perhaps a friendship between the two was rooted in both having