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One of Hokuu Tada's “Kirin Beer” Posters

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Around 1920, painter Tada Kitakasu started designing posters for Kirin Beer. Tada's works are characterized by portraits, especially beautiful women. The color scheme of the letters is basically warm colors, but the size is just right for the typeface and the overall composition, and the letters have strokes so that they do not mix with the background.