Government Railways · NYK Line · The Subway
Travel, Rail, and Liner
The Government Railways and tourist-bureau posters, the NYK Line, and Sugiura Hisui’s subway opening poster.
Government Railways and tourist-bureau posters through the 1930 "Beautiful Japan" era, NYK Line steamship posters, and Sugiura Hisui’s 1927 Tokyo subway opening poster.
1910–1930 · Japan
Tokyo Underground Railway — Opening, 1927
Sugiura Hisui announces the first subway in the East.
Cormorant Fishing at the Nagara River, Gifu — Sugiura Hisui, 1929
A summer evening on the river, sold to city tourists.
The Shōnan Railroad Starts Its Service — Sugiura Hisui, 1930
A new coastal line, announced with the same clean hand.
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Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha - South Manchuria Railway (Two boys)
Two small boys march shoulder to shoulder beneath a railway emblem — a 1927 poster with a great deal on its mind.