Image 1 of 🗾 Japan Air Lines: Red Geisha – 1960s – Original Poster after Uemura Shōen | 100.5 × 62.5 cm | Japan
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🗾 Japan Air Lines: Red Geisha – 1960s – Original Poster after Uemura Shōen | 100.5 × 62.5 cm | Japan

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🗾 Japan Air Lines: Red Geisha – 1960s – Original Poster after Uemura Shōen Nihonga elegance for JAL’s global tourism campaign | Offset lithograph | 100.5 × 62.5 cm | Japan 🎬 Introduction A luminous gold ground frames a full-length geisha in saturated vermilion, her fan paused mid-gesture. The kimono dissolves into cloud motifs with velvety tonal fades, while the obi explodes in stylized wave and floral patterns—nihonga refinements distilled for a modern travel audience. Typography is deliberately spare: the destination “JAPAN,” the JAL crane roundel, and the longform “JAPAN AIR LINES” wordmark. A small artist’s seal at lower right and “Printed in Japan” anchor the work in fine-art lineage and national manufacture. Issued in the 1960s, the poster channels Uemura Shōen’s bijin-ga sensibility—poise, restraint, and craft—into an international brand statement. It’s classic mid-century airline image-making: a fusion of cultural identity and jet-age aspiration rendered in rich offset color. ✨ Why It Matters JAL’s mid-century program routinely adapted or commissioned fine-art imagery to communicate Japan’s sophistication abroad, and this “after Shōen” design is a key example bridging museum aesthetics and aviation ephemera. Collectors value it for cross-category appeal—Japanese art and nihonga, airline history, and mid-century graphic design—while the crane emblem and longform logotype help narrow dating within the decade. Scarcer in this oversize agency format (approx. 100 × 62 cm), many examples were hard-used in travel offices, making clean survivors with strong fields of red and gold especially desirable for display. 📐 Poster Details - Year: c. 1960s - Country: Japan - Size: 100.5 × 62.5 cm - Format: Oversize airline format (approx. 100 × 62 cm) - Studio / Publisher: Japan Air Lines (JAL) - Designer: After Uemura Shōen (nihonga); layout uncredited 🔎 Condition Good vintage condition: vibrant color with sharp corners and no creases; minor edge wear from storage and light, even discoloration consistent with age (leichte Verfärbungen durch Alter und Lagerung). Ships safely rolled in a sturdy tube.
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ConditionVery goodColorsRed, YellowMaterialPaperNumber of items1OrientationPortraitArt sizeLargeHeight100 cmWidth62 cm

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