Author: Banking.
Title: [Kabushikigaisha Shimabara Chokinginko : Shiten Kaigyo Kokoku].
Description: n.p. [c1898] Colour lithograph 26x39cm. A nice copy. ¶ This gentle, charming advertisement - hikifuda - announcing branch openings of the Shimabara Savings Bank is illustrated by two reassuring stories of rags to riches - or solid comfort at least. The Shimabara Bank was founded in 1891 and the Shimabara Savings Bank in 1897 but didn't live long thanks to some investment decisions by the Nakayama family - three Nakayamas including president Fumiko are listed among the directors.Shimabara is in the Nagasaki prefecture and the two branches advertised are Arie - a town that was engulfed by Minamitakaki City - and Taira - which I can only trace as a railway station in a desolate looking area of Unzen, Nagasaki. Dates for month and day have been left blank.

Keywords: hikifuda advertising graphic commercial art c19th Japan progress banks banking economics