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Eboshi were a type of headwear worn in the past by men after formally attaining adulthood through a coming-of-age ceremony demonstrating that they had become adults. The shops that produced and sold eboshi were referred to as eboshiya (i.e., eboshi shops) and one can see from the pictorial record of the time that they displayed uniquely designed signboards of their own in front of their shops. The purpose of this thesis study is to clarify the signboards that the eboshi shops displayed.
