The Exposition of the Shining Japan (Hanshin Hama Park, Hyogo) advertising postcard, 1936. A postcard reproduction of an advertising poster for the event, sponsored by the Tokyo Nichi Nichi and Osaka Mainichi newspapers, held from April 10 – May31, 1936, near Kobe.
See also:
Japan-Manchuria Great Industrial Exposition, Toyama Prefecture, 1936.
Great Manchurian Exhibition, Dairen, Manchukuo, 1933.
“Great Exhibition of Japan’s Rapid Progress” advertising postcard, Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture, 1936.
New Year’s advertising postcard, “Great Exhibition of Japan’s Rapid Progress”, Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture, March 25-May 15, 1936. The artwork includes an illustration of Gifu’s symbolic bird, the cormorant. This exhibition was held under the auspices of Gifu City.
“In the 1930s, the Japanese national and prefectural governments sponsored a series of trade and industrial exhibitions designed to bolster productivity and to instill patriotism. The exhibitions were part of broader designs to bolster Japan’s economy and foster national unity during the period of militarism leading to the Pacific War.
“The exhibits were often promoted with posters featuring a new style of graphics rendering in Japan which freely borrowed from 1930s Western poster design trends including ‘Socialist Realism’.
“Bold slogans were visualized by equally emboldened ideographs. Symbolic imagery and heroic figures familiar to the Japanese were rendered graphically in a Neo-Impressionist style which came closest to mimicking the bokashi color-fading technique refined for ukiyo-e woodblock printing a hundred years earlier in the very early 19th century.”
– Wikipedia