Author: Specimen Hikifuda.
Title: [Yorozu to Kanbutsu Sato Sekiyu ...]
Description: n.p. [c1900?]. Colour woodcut 26x38cm. Rumpled with a couple of small repairs to the edges; quite decent. Stab holes in the right margin showing it was once in an album. ¶ A bustling handsome print produced for merchants of imported goods. These hikifuda - small posters or handbills - were usually produced with the text panel blank. The customer had their own details over printed. In some cases, like this, samples were were produced with generic text to show the finished product.

Keywords: graphic art advertising hikifuda Japan c20th modernism nautical maritime ships