Duck Marbles from the Seike family

[YasudaCollector]

Congratulations Aiko! That's awesome! 😃😎🥳

[shiroaiko]

Thank you, Aidan! For the preparation I wrote a paper on my life regarding marbles and got ready for the appointment.😃 🫧✨

[thaservices]

On 8/7/2025 at 6:35 PM, shiroaiko said:

@thaservices Right after my last post I received an email from a newspaper company from Tokyo. They are interested in my marble research because there are very few people who do researching the history of marbles. They are planning to visit me to Yamagata ( 3 hours by super express) next Tuesday. I need to be prepared for that. I'll start working on the Hosoi article after the visit. I ask you for patience. 🙏

Congrats on the upcoming interview!😀 

[shiroaiko]

@thaservices Thank you! I'm working on the translation now, and I'll let you know the title of the new thread once I'm ready to post it. We're in the middle of Bon holidays in Japan, and Bon actually appears in the text. In older times there were only two big holidays in a year... New Year and Bon, which lasted for about a week. 

[shiroaiko]

 

@thaservices I’ve finally finished the translation I promised—thank you for waiting. Please take a look when you have some time:

 

This is a sensitive topic, so even though I always felt I should get it done, I kept putting it off. I appreciate the opportunity you gave me to finally work on it.

I still have several other documents I’d like to translate, including: an analysis of the U.S. marble market, Yasuda’s technology exports, two patents for cat's eye marbles by Isogami, and Seike’s wirepull patent.