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Sakura Beer, 1912

A brand the Dai Nippon merger swallowed whole.

What

A bijin-ga-style beauty-print advertisement for Sakura Beer, from the transitional Meiji-into-Taishō moment in Japanese commercial art.

Why

Sakura Beer no longer exists as a brand — absorbed into the Dai Nippon Beer conglomerate and never revived under its own name after the postwar breakup that produced today's Sapporo and Asahi.

Notice

The beauty-print convention — Japanese beer advertising of this period borrowed directly from the ukiyo-e-descended bijin-ga tradition, a different visual grammar entirely from the Belle Époque wall.

“A dead mark, the same as any absinthe house — just on the other side of the world.”

Format

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

Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution doesn't clear our floor for a physical print, so this piece is offered as a digital download only.

Size

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Provenance

The Lost — mark extinguished

Artist: Kitano Tsunetomi
Country: Japan
Format: Poster (affiche)
Piece published: Sakura Beer — advertising poster, 1912
Source: Wikimedia Commons

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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.

Sakura Beer was gone from the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.