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Travel, Rail, and Liner · Travel, Rail, and Liner
Santō Tetsudō, Cranes over Shantung, Poster by Sugiura Hisui, 1914-1922
Sugiura Hisui (1876-1965) · Shantung Railway (Santō Tetsudō) 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 poster for the Shantung Railway, Santō Tetsudō, showing cranes flying over Shantung. The railway was then run by the administration of the Japanese garrison at Tsingtao, and the poster is dated to those years, 1914 to 1922.
Why it matters
Sugiura Hisui, design chief at Mitsukoshi from 1910, also took railway and shipping commissions. Here he sold an occupied line with a bird of long life.
What to notice
The railway mark sits on the sheet beside the birds, small against the sky.
A wartime railway, advertised with cranes.
Provenance
- School
- Government Railways & Liner Posters (Japan)
- Designer
- Sugiura Hisui (1876-1965)
- Format
- Travel poster
- Poster published
- Shantung Railway (Santō Tetsudō) poster, 1914
- Source
- USC Digital Library, East Asian Library (rbm-coll3020) · USC rbm-coll3020-02-10
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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