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Travel, Rail, and Liner · Books, Goods, and the Argument
Hoshi Seiyaku, Poster by Sugiura Hisui, 1914
Sugiura Hisui (1876-1965) · Hoshi Seiyaku advertising poster, 1914
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A 1914 lithograph poster for Hoshi Seiyaku, the Hoshi Pharmaceutical Company. Hoshi is the Japanese word for star.
Why it matters
Sugiura had become design chief at Mitsukoshi in 1910 and was taking outside clients by the middle of the decade. A company named for a star gave him its mark ready-made.
What to notice
The date on the file is written Taishō 3, the third year of the Taishō era, which is 1914.
A brand name drawn as the thing it names.
Provenance
- School
- Government Railways & Liner Posters (Japan)
- Designer
- Sugiura Hisui (1876-1965)
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Hoshi Seiyaku advertising poster, 1914
- Source
- Private collection, via publicdomainr · publicdomainr sugiura-hisui-0004279
Live trademark
Hoshi Seiyaku — sold here as history, never adopted into this house’s own branding.
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 2026-11-01. Sugiura Hisui died in 1965, so the work stays in copyright in life-plus-70 countries until 1 January 2036. Public domain in the US by publication before 1931; look before any EU or UK order.
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