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Nippon Shuzō — Woman in Blue Kimono, c. 1915

A sake house's beauty print, in the same key as the beer posters beside it.

What

A high-resolution sake advertisement from a Yonezawa-area brewer, part of the same bijin-ga beauty-print tradition as the Sakura Beer poster — a woman in a blue kimono, printed by Ichida Offset Printing Co.

Why

Whether this specific brewer is still trading was not independently confirmed in this house's research pass — held live/uncertain rather than guessed dead, the conservative default.

Notice

The print quality — this is the single best-resolution scan to come out of the Japan research pass, from a university East Asian poster collection rather than a dealer or fan reproduction.

“Sold as art, labeled honestly as uncertain.”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

Live mark — art history only

Country: Japan
Format: Poster (affiche)
Piece published: Nippon Shuzō Kabushiki Kaisha — advertising poster, 1915
Source: USC Libraries, East Asian poster collection · USC Libraries coll. 3020

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Scan: USC Libraries, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.

Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (piece published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the piece’s own publication year, never a brand’s founding year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-16. Whether the brewer Nippon Shuzō (Yonezawa) is still trading today was not independently confirmed — markStatus held 'live' as the conservative default for an unconfirmed claim, not asserted as certainly still active.

Nippon Shuzō is a live mark, still on shelves today. This piece is sold strictly as art history — not as marketing, endorsement, or affiliation.