--- title: '''Dangan kitte'' (Bullet Stamps) war-savings lottery advertisement, back cover of Shashin Shūhō' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dangan-kitte-shashin-shuho-1943/ description: The back cover of the government photo weekly Shashin Shūhō advertises 'dangan kitte', 2-yen war-savings stamps drawn as rifle bullets. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [!['Dangan kitte' (Bullet Stamps) war-savings lottery advertisement, back cover of Shashin Shūhō](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dangan-kitte-shashin-shuho-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dangan-kitte-shashin-shuho-1943.jpg) # 'Dangan kitte' (Bullet Stamps) war-savings lottery advertisement, back cover of Shashin Shūhō The back cover of the government photo weekly Shashin Shūhō advertises 'dangan kitte', 2-yen war-savings stamps drawn as rifle bullets. The 11th sale runs 1 to 15 April, the draw is on 20 April, prizes run from 1,000 yen down to 2 yen, and one stamp in eleven wins. The colophon names the Information Bureau as editor and the Cabinet Printing Bureau as printer, at 10 sen a copy, and a box asks readers to send the magazine on to soldiers at the front. - **Date:** March 31, 1943 - **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii) - **Made by:** Ministry of Finance and Cabinet Information Bureau (Jōhōkyoku), in Shashin Shūhō - **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia) - **Country:** [Empire of Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=empire-of-japan) - **Medium:** [Advertisement](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=advertisement) - **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state) - **Regime:** [Showa Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=showa-japan) - **Leader:** [Hideki Tojo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=hideki-tojo) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Fundraise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=fundraise) - **Themes:** [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance), [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military) - **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii) - **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Regime:** [Empire of Japan, 1937 to 1945](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/showa-japan/) - **Leader:** [Hideki Tōjō](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/showa-japan/#hideki-tojo) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dangan_Kitte.JPG), retrieved September 27, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (PD-Japan-organization; PD-1996 in the U.S.) Ministry of Finance / Cabinet Information Bureau, Shashin Shūhō, 1943; scan by a Wikimedia Commons uploader. ## Text on the object Original (Japanese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 弾丸切手 1枚 2円 第11回売出 4月1日 → 15日 抽籤日 4月20日 割増金 1等 1000円 2等 100円 3等 5円 4等 2円 當籤率 11枚に付 1枚の割合 抽籤の済んだ切手は五枚以上まとめて郵便局へお差出しの上、特別据置貯金証書と引換へて下さい。 [illegible — small colophon/order-form panel, bottom of page] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Bullet Stamps 1 stamp: 2 yen 11th sale April 1 → 15 Drawing day April 20 Bonus prizes 1st prize: 1,000 yen 2nd prize: 100 yen 3rd prize: 5 yen 4th prize: 2 yen Winning rate 1 in every 11 stamps wins Once your stamps have been drawn, gather five or more together and submit them at the post office in exchange for a special fixed-term savings certificate. [illegible] ``` The small bordered panel at the very bottom of the page (subscription/order information and the magazine's colophon — price, publisher 'Jōhōkyoku' and printer 'Cabinet Printing Bureau', issue date) is set in very small type and is not legible enough at this image resolution to transcribe reliably; it is marked [illegible] rather than guessed. The large title characters read top-to-bottom as printed on the page (弾丸切手, 'dangan kitte'). 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