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Originally Posted by Billbob3691
Thanks!
Yes I believe it was picked up by my great grandfather at the end of WWII. So this was printed text? Do you know whether the images in the book are completely printed or if maybe they were painted by hand? The lines appear to be printed but the colors look like they may have been painted in after printing?
I am going to include another photo of the back cover. Looks to be maybe an author's or owner's signature? Once again I hope the picture quality is good enough to read.
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It reads "Asano Teruko" (Family Name, Personal Name), and is a feminine name. Could be the author's signature, and
here's an author with the same name, but she's a bit too young to have written that book.
Here's a list of Japanese author names, in English.
Google results for "Asano Teruko" OR "Teruko Asano", if you want to go through them.
Judging by the link KyleGoetz provided, the book is printed (印刷). It's intended as a school textbook anyway, so it wouldn't make much sense for it to be drawn.
'though... I suppose it's possible that the former owner might have drawn or coloured something in it. A lot of (younger) people tend to do that to their textbooks as well.