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栗本タイムス 第23号

1926 · 栗本本店 · 70 pictures

This is a 1926 advertising sheet from the Kurimoto Times, issue 23, published by the Kurimoto main store in Japan for mail-order customers buying picture cards and albums. The pictures show narrow hanging ribbon-mounted cards, a row of tinted portrait and actor cards, a plain album cover, and dense grids of small printed cards with Japanese price and order text, giving a designer examples of early twentieth-century Japanese commercial typography, card layout and vertical lettering.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library