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Cormorant Fishing at the Nagara River, Gifu — Sugiura Hisui, 1929
Sugiura Hisui · Japanese travel poster, Gifu Prefecture, 1929
What it is
Sugiura Hisui’s travel poster for cormorant fishing and summer pleasure on the Nagara River, Gifu Prefecture.
Why it matters
Same commercial-design hand as the subway poster, aimed at leisure travel rather than infrastructure — Sugiura worked both registers for the same modernizing Japan.
What to notice
The firelight of the cormorant boats rendered as flat warm shapes against a cool river.
A very old fishing method, sold as a very modern night out.
Provenance
- School
- Government Railways & Liner Posters (Japan)
- Designer
- Sugiura Hisui
- Format
- Travel poster
- Poster published
- Japanese travel poster, Gifu Prefecture, 1929
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-17.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution doesn't clear our floor for a physical print, so this piece is offered as a digital download only.
Size
$29.00
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