Mid Century Monday #8 – Japanese prints

I haven’t blogged in a while but what a Thanksgiving week!

We were so busy bowling, eating, seeing Santa, seeing lights, picking out our tree, decorating said tree and the house and even fitting in some hours to move the playhouse along! I hardly had time to think about blogging.

See progress pic of playhouse with handy hubby:

So we have been busy. But I do have so much I want to blog about.

This year I made the leap from one to two trees and we just got the second one in tonight! It is my first artificial tree and I was really kind of overwhelmed with the options out there.

Pencil tree? Pre lit? Fun color? Flocked?

I actually love the look of flocked trees and ALMOST went that route, but I kept coming back to this funky silver one that seemed just perfect for a mid century space.

I am  blogging late because my oldest son and I stayed up past bed time to decorate it 🙂

I hope to do a blog post on my trees soon. They aren’t anything special but I actually found myself looking through photos of trees of years past and thought it would be fun to have a round up of them all in one place.

Anyway…It is Monday after all and I haven’t done a Mid Century Monday lately. I just realized today that I keep forgetting to blog about these awesome prints!

I figure they are from the 50’s so we’ll just call them MCM.

Here’s the story:

A few months ago my mom was organizing and found these prints that were my grandpa’s.

My mom and dad moved into my mom’s childhood home several years ago so in some parts of the home there are still items from my grandparents.

One of my favorite places like this is the library which is a whole different blog post. I have thumbed through parenting and marriage books written in the 1960’s and they are wild. I may share those later!

But my point–These “Four Seasons of Tokyo” prints were found in a file cabinet!

My grandpa served and was injured in the Korean War. He actually stepped on a land mine and from what I have heard was initially mistaken for dead. Needless to say, he needed medical attention and was taken to a hospital in Japan for US soldiers.

He spent a long time recovering there and came home with many souvenirs  from Japan…like these prints that appear to have hardly been touched ever since.

I thought I’d share here just because I think they are so cool and  have a retro vibe. Not only that but they have significance.

I actually photographed these with the protective sheet around the edge, if you lift it up, the white underneath it (the white around each print) isn’t even yellowed.

Our mid century home  has a lot of Asian inspired accents such as door handles and light fixtures so I know they will look great wherever we find a home for them and cannot wait to frame them!

I’ll be sure to post an update once these are being displayed properly.