Travel, Rail, and Liner
The Japanese Wing
The Government Railways, the NYK Line, and the modern journey, sold as image.
1910–1930
Government Railways and tourist-bureau posters (including the 1930 "Beautiful Japan" era), NYK Line steamship posters, and Sugiura Hisui’s 1927 Tokyo subway opening poster. Cross-linked both directions with The Floating World — the ukiyo-e prints that taught these posters to see.
Why this school is here
Government Railways & Liner Posters
Japan · 1910–1930
Pre-1931 publication clears under the family’s U.S.-seller public-domain framework.
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In the wing
Travel, Rail, and Liner
Tokyo Underground Railway — Opening, 1927
Sugiura Hisui announces the first subway in the East.
Travel, Rail, and Liner
Cormorant Fishing at the Nagara River, Gifu — Sugiura Hisui, 1929
A summer evening on the river, sold to city tourists.
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The Shōnan Railroad Starts Its Service — Sugiura Hisui, 1930
A new coastal line, announced with the same clean hand.
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Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha - South Manchuria Railway (Two boys)
Two small boys march shoulder to shoulder beneath a railway emblem — a 1927 poster with a great deal on its mind.