Tokyo Flashback: Vintage Design and Illustration in Japan
Some Japanese design and illustration nuggets excavated from my ramshackle book collection. Thanks to Sandi and Sandra for help this time.
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Takei Takeo, cover for issue of Kodomo no kuni (Children's Land), 1926

Kushida Mitsuhiro, poster for The Little Match Girl, 1967

Shotaro Honda, illus. for Kodomo no kuni, vol.II, no. 3, 1932

Shinohara Katsuyuki, poster for Demon Fantasy, 1974

Shinohara Katsuyuki, poster design for Matasaburo of the Wind, 1974

Yoshitaro Isaka, 1968

Tadanori Yokoo, Cover of a Japanese magazine, Collection of Stories, published by Nihon-Sha, 67-68
compliments of Sandi Vincent

7-inch packaging, ca. 60s

1935, poster for Exhibition of Tobacco Products, artist unknown

1920s ad, from "Commercial Design in Japan"
Compliments of Sandra Eterovic

Seiichi Horiuchi, children's book cover, 1972
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Nichiyu Toy Company Japan (55-56)
compliments of Sandi Vincent
That is clearly Pac-Man!

Susumu Eguchi Illustration, Poster for a children's science exhibition in the Tobu department store, 69-70
compliments of Sandi Vincent

book spreads, artist unknown, ca. 1964
(please leave a comment if you know who this is)

1963 book cover

1963 book cover by Kohei Sugiura

1963, Japanese album cover
Two covers dedicated to the new blog of abstract album art, Project Thirty-Three

1962, Japanese album cover

Japanese book cover, ca. 20s or 30s

Yumeji book cover
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Yasuo Shigehara Illustration, Poster for an American book published by Kodansha Ltd. (69-70)
compliments of Sandi Vincent

Japanese, 1927 magazine cover

Back cover of an issue of Kodomo no tenchi magazine, 1934
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Haruyo Kawashima, illus. for Kansatsu ehon kindabukku, vol. 6, no. 7, 1933 (detail)





