# Olde-Fashioned script on Japanese book cover

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I looked at some scans of old issues on the journal’s web site  
[http://www.hototogisu.co.jp/](http://www.hototogisu.co.jp/)  
and, at first glance, they do not use any particularly unusual font inside…

They do have a gallery of all the covers, by the way:  
[http://www.hototogisu.co.jp/kiseki/hototo/hyosi/hyosi0.htm](http://www.hototogisu.co.jp/kiseki/hototo/hyosi/hyosi0.htm)

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