'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
- Made by
- Ministry of Finance and Cabinet Information Bureau (Jōhōkyoku), in Shashin Shūhō
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Advertisement
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Hideki Tojo
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, 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
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]
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').
