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Postcard: Marionnette Amis Cafe, Akihabara, Tokyo
[Posted: 2025-12-10 19-53 UTC±0] 

Painting in watercolour with ink lines, with three quarter portrait of a life sized ball jointed doll in the middle, slightly looked at from the left. The painting is vertical, painted on top of a postcard with the print of the postcard visible on the left (it says 1896/99 Henri-Edmond Cross Landscape in English and Japanese). The doll painted has long orange-reddish hair, wears a fluffy cap, a dress with a bow, and holds a teddy bear in her left hand, while waving with her right hand. The joints of her right hand are visible. In the middle of the bow of her chest is a brooch with a shape of a person's head. The painting is signed Michael Vokabre Marionette Amis Doll Tea Room Akihabara Tokyo, painted in Tel Aviv Jaffa 2025 5785.

A composite scan with the painting described before being on the left. On the right on top of where the address is written is the front of the postcard, depicting the painting Landscape by Henri-Edmond Cross. The painting depicts a field, and a mountain before it, with trees in the middle, and trees on the right, all painted in the technique of pointillism, with the painting made out of little colourful dots. In between the address area and the place where there's a doll painting printed

Postcard: Marionnette Amis Cafe, Akihabara, Tokyo
ポストカード：Marionnette Amis カフェ、秋葉原、東京

Portrait of a “FantasyDreamMaiden” 1:1 ball jointed doll at the previous location of Marionnette Amis Cafe, painted in ink and watercolour on a postcard with the painting “Landscape” by Henri-Edmond Cross.

The postcard is from the series “A Hawaii Treasury, Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts” and was found at a second hand shop in Funabashi town in Chiba.

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The cafe: https://twitter.com/MarionnetteAmis
The doll maker: https://sites.google.com/view/fantasy-dream-maiden

🎨 Patreon-only high-res scan with the full story: https://www.patreon.com/posts/145548185/
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