Showa Modern: Signs and Store Designs 1920s–1930s

This book introduces over 200 signs, shop window displays and street decorations from the late Taishō to early Shōwa period, when Japanese cities underwent great change.
At a time when cafés, bars, fruit shops and clothing stores lined the streets and urban culture flourished, signs and lantern decorations were important elements that shaped the cityscape.
This book offers a fascinating journey into the visual culture of Japan in the 1920s and 1930s.