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File:Spinning Top Season in Japan (1914 by Elstner Hilton).jpg

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If there are any tops in this photo, they must be quite small. Perhaps the small items on the twisted object are tops.

What I can see is a boy holding a string, which he must have used to launch his top.

It must have been great to be a kid in pre-war Japan because of all the festivals held throughout the year.

This photo is from an album my spouse's uncle Elstner Hilton compiled in Japan between 1914 and 1918.

While Uncle Elstner was pretty good about annotating the photos that required an explanation of some sort, he did not date the pictures. So all we know is they date to between January, 1914 and December, 1918.
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Source The Top Season in Japan
Author A.Davey from Portland, Oregon, EE UU
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  • Japan 1914 - 1918
    I own the originals of these unpublished family photos. ... As a salesman for Atkins Saw Company, Elstner Hilton traveled to the Far East to sell commercial sawmills in the early years of the 20th century. ... Elstner Hilton was my father-in-law Frank Hilton's* brother, which makes him my spouse's uncle. ...
    * Elstner Hilton's brother Frank Hilton compiled a scrapbook of photographs, clippings and other ephemera at Stanford University between 1907 and 1911. ...
    ps: I now have reason to believe that the photos of Japan may be stock photos that Uncle Elstner purchased and pasted into his album. There may be some exceptions: the images of his sister, Miriam, and photos of logging operations in the Phillippines.

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