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Showa Modern: Ad Designs, 1920-1930s landscape He considers the role ofCutting edge works of 1920s and 1930s Japanese design that still excite and inspire. A blossoming cosmopolitan culture pervaded Taisho and Showa era Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, when new Western style establishments like bars, cafs, and boutiques lined city streets. The concept of design as a vehicle to connect people and things found expression in fresh and exuberant forms, and cities teemed with posters and other advertising media. This book