Title : Locomotive Workers

Artist : Wada Sanzo

Date : 1955.

Details : Wada Sanzo: Locomotive Workers - Artelino

Source : artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description : "Zoku Showa Shokugyo E-zukushi" (Continuing Sketches of Occupations in Showa Era). Locomotive workers. The first of this large series was published by Nishinomiya Shoin in 1938 - 1943. It was very popular and even featured on the Asahi Newspapers everytime the new design was published. It was interrupted by World War II. After the war, Kyoto Hanga-in made the continuation of it. This series is an interesting document of the new as well as the old, dying occupations in Japan in early to mid 20th Century.

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