19th Century Japanese Drug Advertisments

Kyō maruyama okaruyaki - Lightly baked confection by Kyō maruyama. (late 19th century)


Fukunai dokusō-gan - Internal poison cleansing pills (if taken for a month, cleans various poison sicknesses such as syphilis and gonorrhea). (late 19th century)


Shinyaku Sonota - Divine Medicine and others, with portraits of Jun Matsumoto, Shochu Sato, and Ki Hayashi. (Hashimoto Chikanobu, 1878)


Shōni-yaku-ō Kindoru-san - King of children's drug: Kinder-Puwder (Morikawa Chikashige, 1880)


Rakuzen-dō sanyaku: Hoyō-gan, Chinryūin, Ontsū-gan, Megusuri Seiki-sui - Three drugs from Rakuzendō for low energy, heart-burn, and constipation (Eitaku, late 19th century)


Tsukisarae kokoku; Kaitetsu-gan – monthly cleansing (c 1830)


Yōtetsugan - Iodide iron pill (Hasegawa Sadanobu, mid-late 19th century)


Miruwa kusuri kasumi no hikifuda - Medicine for clear vision. (Utagawa Yoshitsuya, 1862)


Miruwa kusuri kasumi no hikifuda - Medicine for clear vision. (Utagawa Yoshitsuya, 1862)


Benri ohaguro tokiwa no tsuya - Easy to use teeth-blackening oxide, Tokiwa no tsuya means "everlasting luster" and is also the name of the woman pictured (Hasegawa Sadanobu II, late 19th century)


Hikan yakuōen - drug for spleen and liver (1895)


Ichikawa Danjūro kōen Seisei gan - Ichikawa Danjūrō announcing the drug “Seisei gan” (for hangover) (Utagawa Toyokuni III, mid 19th century)

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all images are from San Francisco University's Japanese Woodblock Print Collection [link]
see more at Digital Clendening's Japanese Art on the Subject of Medicine [link]