Japanese Sake Bottle 1940 Olympics?

Picked this bottle up at an estate sale. Has the Olympic rings and I think Japanese writing and a downhill skier. Could this mabe be from the 1940 Olympics? Has a old cork stopper.

 

This gets confusing - the 1940 Olympics were supposed to be Summer Games and at one point were scheduled for Tokyo, but thanks to what became WWII the Games were never held. Not sure how downhill skiing would figure into summer sports. Maybe it was a strictly Japanese team or fan souvenir from a different year?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Summer_Olympics

 

Japan was also to be the site of the 1940 Winter Olympics. I think yours may be a promotional piece. I once found a promotional handkerchief for one of the never-to-happen 1940 Japan Olympics (but don't remember if it was winter or summer.) Of course, you'll know for sure when a Japanese speaker comes along to translate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Winter_Olympics

Debora

 

I should add that yours is a traditional Japanese gourd-shaped saki bottle.

Debora

 

Thanks Bakers.

Deb, thanks. That link is where I saw the Olympics to be in Japan.

 

There were winter Olympics in Sapporo in 1972.

 

Janet Thanks.

 

In Sapporo there is a place called the magic snack bar Ropossa/Lopossa, which goes by ロポッサ.

ロポッサ is are the characters for Sapporo in reverse order サッポロ = Sapporo

At this place, the diners are entertained with magic tricks.

 

Couch Potato, so this came from Sapporo, a snack bar? Could they have given away promo items for the Olympics?

 

I'm not sure really, you could always ask them.

+81 11-562-7711

 

Yeah, no thanks.

 

Cool piece.