Scroll down for questions to guide your exploration of the flyer.

To view the flyer in detail and read the annotations, hover over the image. Each annotation consists of a blue part (an English translation; or [in brackets] an English-language explanation) and a black part (a transcription of the text). To view the flyer without annotations, click on SOURCE FILE. 

Note for the specialist reader: The furigana in the transcriptions of the text boxes on the upper left and lower right refer to glosses printed on the flyer itself. The furigana in most of the other transcriptions were added by me. 

Describe the images on the flyer. What kinds of scenes and processes are being displayed in the lower left and upper right quadrants? 

How does the flyer represent parents and children? What can you conclude from their conversations about contemporary assumptions about people's attitudes toward vaccinations? How does the flyer try to persuade them? 

What does the flyer make of the fact that vaccinations were a technology imported from abroad? 

Identify as many references to religion as you can find on this flyer. What might the authors have intended by connecting vaccination to these various religious traditions? 

Look at the language and writing style. What can you conclude from these about the intended audience of the flyer?