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Ueno-Asakusa Subway, Tokyo Underground Railway, Horizontal Poster by Sugiura Hisui, 1927
Sugiura Hisui (1876-1965) · Tokyo Underground Railway opening poster, 1927
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 1927 horizontal poster by Sugiura Hisui for the opening of the Tokyo Underground Railway between Ueno and Asakusa. Its headline calls the line the latest advances of science brought together.
Why it matters
This is a companion to the upright Sugiura subway poster already in the house. Here the crowd stands in black silhouette against a yellow train.
What to notice
The company name runs along the foot of the sheet, under the platform.
A city meeting its first underground.
Provenance
- School
- Government Railways & Liner Posters (Japan)
- Designer
- Sugiura Hisui (1876-1965)
- Format
- Transit poster
- Poster published
- Tokyo Underground Railway opening poster, 1927
- Source
- Private collection, via publicdomainr · publicdomainr sugiura-hisui-0004284
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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