The Shōnan Railroad Starts Its Service — Sugiura Hisui, 1930

Sugiura Hisui’s poster announcing the opening of the Shōnan Railroad’s Yokohama–Uraga–Kanazawa–Tosu service. A third Sugiura commission in this wing, each for a different infrastructural first — this is the last new rail line the house has sourced before the 1931 wall. The coastline rendered as a single confident sweeping line, the train reduced to its essential silhouette. Another line, another clean announcement.

Maker

Sugiura Hisui

Date

1930

Medium of the original

Transit poster

Original held by

Wikimedia Commons

Credit

Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons

Rights

Cleared for print

Catalogue number

PA-00877