Author: Hikifuda.
Title: [Shinshu Matsumoto Higashimachi Uetei].
Description: n.p. [c1900?]. Woodcut broadside 28x24cm. A nice copy. ¶ An intriguing and to me mysterious handbill from Matsumoto - a city in the Nagano prefecture in central Honshu. It seems clear it offers - in some rustic, or perhaps reverse way - what the well dressed man needs. Superior quality is promised but I'm stumped by all those series of numbers. They don't make sense as measurements to me.

Keywords: graphic art commerical advertising hikifuda c19th c20th Japan modernism fashion costume