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Sugiura Hisui, Colour litograph, 1927 on Flickr.

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Celebration poster for the subway that goes from Ueno to Asakusa (downtown Tokyo) – the only subway train you see in East Asia… (Thanks to Paula Wirth for translating!)

Sugiura Hisui, “The Only Subway in the East”. Colour litograph, Japanese, 1927.

Scanned from “Art Deco 1910-1939” edited by Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton and Chislaine Wood.

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