A tanuki ninja advertising a photo studio offering a "ninja experience". Tanuki statues started after the war in Shiga (滋賀) prefecture where there is also the area called Koka/Koga (甲賀) famous for its ninja so a tanuki-ninja model was inevitable.
(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr).
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