Author: Fire Safety Poster.
Title: [Hifuse - Chichibu Shobogume].
Description: Chichibu Fire Prevention Publicity Department [c1930?]. Colour litho poster 39x27cm. Horizontal fold and creased in a top corner. ¶ The Chichibu Fire Prevention department produced a series of these fire safety poster. I think they were the result of a school competition. So far I've seen three. One makes the fire department more threatening than a fire, one seems a lesson in how to burn down the city and this one takes a more theological approach: fire is neither an accidental nor deliberate act of people, it is a demonic being.

Keywords: graphic art social sciences education public health safety posters c20th Japan reform progress modernism fire Asia