Found these on another blog but amazed at the timelessness of the design, some of them especially cool for breaking all the rules but pulling it off with some real style. Check out the 'May !' poster below.

"Buy Domestic!" poster, 1930 [
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Cover of "Nippon" magazine issue #1, Oct 1934 [
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"Fuji Weekly" cover, Oct 1930 [
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Poster for Japan's first national census, 1920 [
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Grand Nagoya Festival poster by Kenkichi Sugimoto, 1933 [
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Kyoto Grand Exposition to Commemorate the Showa Imperial Coronation, 1928 [
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Poster design by Shujiro Shimomura, 1928 [
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"NAPF" (Nippona Artista Proleta Federacio) magazine cover, Feb 1931 [
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"NAPF" (Nippona Artista Proleta Federacio) magazine covers: Sep 1931 // Oct 1931

"May 1" movie poster by Hiromu Hara, 1928-1929 [
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"Senki" magazine covers: Oct 1929 // Nov 1929

"Senki" magazine covers: May 1930 // Jan 1930

Cover of "Nippon" magazine issue #7, June 1936 [
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Magazine ad for "
Seishun Zukai" movie, 1931 [
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"Affiches" magazine issue #2, Aug 1927 [
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"The Advertising World" magazine cover, Sep 1933 [
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Book covers: "Modern Commercial Art," 1928 [
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Tako - 凧) by Takehisa Yumeji, 1926 [
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Poster for 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan (canceled due to war), 1938 [
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