"Tokaido Milk" - A parody of Hokaido Milk. Tokaido (lit: Eastern Sea Road) was a very important route connecting Edo (modern day Tokyo) and Kyoto during the Edo Period of Japan (1603-1868). Along the Tokaido there were 53 stations that travelers could stop at and spanned, as the milk carton states, about 495km.
In the green triangle on the upper left hand side, the writing reads,"50% More Fun".
We do not have firm date, but we should have 5 new colors of the Iwako giraffe erasers sometime in late April. This Japanese eraser collection will be available in a complete series set as well as individually.
This is the actual carton of corn soup that can be bought in Japan. The soup is milk based, somewhat sweet tasting and of course has bits of corn in it.
The back panel of the corn soup carton Japanese eraser translates as follows:
The writing in the orange curved band towards the top of the carton eraser, reads, "Corncrete".
We received an inquiry about why the green motorcycle Iwako Japanese eraser was available in the Motorcycle Eraser Sets but not individually. Was the green motorcycle eraser very rare and that was why it was only available in the more expensive sets, the customer wanted to know? It was simple. We had never posted the green motorcycle eraser, even though we did have the inventory. So for those of you who have waited patently for the green motorcycle erasers, they are now up on the site.
New to the "None of the Above" eraser category is the set of 5 scented erasers. Each of the cartons contain a scented cube eraser. Flavors as pictured.
There are now 2 versions of the bowling set Japanese toy erasers. In series one of the toy erasers, the bowling balls are standard colors. This set of Iwako novelty erasers is no longer made by Iwako, but we have inventory. The pictures are of series one erasers.
This is the latest milk carton food Japanese erasers from Iwako.
This is the header card used for the vegetable Japanese food erasers made by Dream/Zensinsyoji. The writing on the left followed by the 2 exclamation marks reads "Straight From the Farm". 
So keeping within our need to keep track of every variation of the Japanese erasers we present the two colors of the squid animal erasers. The darker orange on the left is the most recent color variation and will supersede the older and lighter orange on the right.
As we work our way through the last Dream/Zensinsyoji shipment, we are finding other Japanese food erasers that has the new darker orange color. In the newest sliced orange erasers, the interior of the orange Japanese erasers is darker than the previous orange erasers. For now, we have stock of the older lighter version which is pictured on the right, as well as the new darker version.
In the most recent shipment of Dream/Zensinsyoji puffer fish Japanese erasers, the orange puffer eraser came in a darker shade of orange. We suspect as Dream/Zensinsyoji colors can vary from batch to batch of erasers, this is what has happened here. We will list this darker shade of orange animal eraser along side the lighter version. 
Arriving in the next few days is the first color series of the Bowling Japanese erasers. This older color series of these Japanese erasers was replaced by a second series of ball eraser colors that are fluorescent. The original colors are not so bright.
Our original shipping date for the new colors of the elephant Japanese erasers was to be sometime in April. You will not need to wait that long. We expect that the new colors of these new Japanese animal erasers will ship sometime during the first week of March.
Both Iwako and Dream/Zensinsyoji offer cupcake Japanese food erasers. Dream/Zensinsyoji's Japanese food cupcake erasers come packaged in pairs and currently in 3 colors. From Dream/Zensinsyoji, the colors could, without notice, change with any of the upcoming shipments. 
Now we are obsessed with the color variations of the same eraser, we will be posting them as we find them. 
In the previous post, we introduced the 4 new colors of the elephant Japanese animal erasers. Here are the 4 new colors of the new version panda. Mirroring the colors of the elephants, the panda erasers also come in the same colors. Yellow, green, pink and blue along with the currently available brown and black. We expect to have these Iwako novelty erasers in April.
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