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Hikifuda. - [Kisha Seki Suiriku Nimotsu Unso Toriatsukaijo].

Title: [Kisha Seki Suiriku Nimotsu Unso Toriatsukaijo].
Description: n.p. [c1904]. Colour lithograph 37x52cm. Old folds. ¶ Freudians, symbolists and students of gay innuendo of the last century, eat your hearts out. Our artist beat you to every punch by years. The train may have left the cannon but the banner and torpedo suggest that another could be along soon. This patriotic hikifuda - large handbill or small poster - advertising a transport company must date to the Russo-Japanese war.

Keywords: graphic art advertising hikifuda c20th Japan modernism military sex

Price: AUD 300.00 = appr. US$ 207.56 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 10262