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The Cabaret Hostess’s Song 

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Songs from popular movies and those played on cafe gramophones formed the soundtrack to Japanese modern life in the 1920s and 1930s. Companies such as the Japanese subsidiary of Victor Talking Machine Company and Japanese film studio Shochiku transformed popular tunes into music scores for the fashionable and bohemian instruments, the harmonica and ukulele.

From: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/feb/28/vibrant-progressive-and-bold-graphic-designs-of-japanese-modernism-in-pictures