1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook antique flip drawing It dates to 1964

It dates to 1964

and I believe the box is pewter

while also resembling a wedding cake

its weighing 22 pounds did nothing to deter me

1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook antique flip drawing It dates to 1964On 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