Author: Wax. Kitagumi & Co. Ltd. Kobe.
Title: Manufacturers & Exporters of Japan Vegetable Wax ...
Description: Kitagumi [190-?]. 38x51cm printed broadside in English and Japanese within a colour border. ¶ A dignified but not unfriendly advertisement - or perhaps a label or wrapper for export - befitting the purest and whitest wax in the market. Company founder Kochi Torajiro must have used squillions of what he made from wax to build the Garyu-sanso, maybe the most understated, modest showoff piece of design and craftsmanship ever.

Keywords: graphic commercial art advertising technology manufactures wax c20th Japan hikifuda