Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers with Trumpeter studio pottery decanter I believe I am correct

I believe I am correct in reading this terrific mid-century Japanese woodblock print as a portrayal of the strata of the earth

Photos show first the brighter blue then the paler blue bird

and really they transcend

5 1/4" in diameter x 3 3/8" tall and to my eye beautifully aged

Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers with Trumpeter studio pottery decanter I believe I am correctThese are the sorts of things that I am incapable of walking away from completely alive with the image of a child deeply absorbed in bringing imagined characters to life in order to physically enact war time dramas at miniature scale, in addition to dripping with charm in and of themselves. I might guess there were a couple of makers involved in creating these six soldiers, with with one second to left in the first photo (my favorite, looking askance)