JUNICHI NAKAHARA | 1913-1988
Snowy Night | Dreams Come True | Fragrance of the Chrysanthemum
 vintage bookmarks from 1920s | lithography on card 143 mm

Bookmarks by the renowned Japanese illustrator and print maker Junichi Nakahara from the Kagawa prefecture.
In the 1920s and 1930s his illustrations of young girls with big eyes were famous and he had a dominant influence
during that generation. Nakahara is considered to be a major forerunner of the manga art.
  
The bookmarks show teenaged town girls in their typical costumes of the era. The titles of the bookmarks can be
seen on the inscriptions in the background of the images.