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Travel, Rail, and Liner · Books, Goods, and the Argument
Minori Cigarettes, Monopoly Bureau, Poster by Sugiura Hisui, 1930
Sugiura Hisui (1876-1965) · Monopoly Bureau cigarette poster, 1930
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 1930 poster for the government Monopoly Bureau announcing Minori, a new cigarette with a mouthpiece: on sale in early November, 20 cigarettes for 15 sen.
Why it matters
Tobacco was a state monopoly in Japan, so the government was the advertiser, and it hired Sugiura, the designer who had made the Mitsukoshi posters.
What to notice
The price and the date are part of the design, set as plainly as a notice.
A state product sold like any other.
Provenance
- School
- Government Railways & Liner Posters (Japan)
- Designer
- Sugiura Hisui (1876-1965)
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Monopoly Bureau cigarette poster, 1930
- Source
- AtPress release scan · Commons file, source atpress.ne.jp/news/272525
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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