Author: Specimen hikifuda.
Title: Hikifuda of women and children shopping.
Description: n.p. [1931]. colour broadside 53x38cm. Folded, with stab holes indicating it was once in an album. ¶ A vivid and heart warming portrait of the urban well-to-do and the rewards of being well-to-do: modernity and shopping. It can be seen as mother daughter life lessons. Many such images in Japan are moral lessons, showing girls and young women their compensation for being good. These hikifuda - small posters or handbills - were usually produced with a blank text panel. The customer, usually a retailer, had their own details over printed. The handy calendar is for 1932.
Keywords: graphic art advertising posters hikifuda c20th Japan Asia modernism women feminism transport fashion children
Title: Hikifuda of women and children shopping.
Description: n.p. [1931]. colour broadside 53x38cm. Folded, with stab holes indicating it was once in an album. ¶ A vivid and heart warming portrait of the urban well-to-do and the rewards of being well-to-do: modernity and shopping. It can be seen as mother daughter life lessons. Many such images in Japan are moral lessons, showing girls and young women their compensation for being good. These hikifuda - small posters or handbills - were usually produced with a blank text panel. The customer, usually a retailer, had their own details over printed. The handy calendar is for 1932.
Keywords: graphic art advertising posters hikifuda c20th Japan Asia modernism women feminism transport fashion children
Price: AUD 125.00 = appr. US$ 86.48 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 10583
- Book number: 10583