out to be pivotal to Sakaeya becoming a publisher of postcards. First cards Sakaeya first started selling postcards some time after the closing of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894-95 (Meiji 27-28), 1 probably in the late 1890s (early Meiji 30s). 2 This makes it, together with Yokohama based Ueda (also Uyeda), one