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Tsunetomi Kitano made himself a name as a great artist of bijin-ga, images of beautiful women.<br/><br/> He was a dominating figure in the art scene of Osaka in the first half of the twentieth century.
By 1938, with the Second Sino-Japanese War well under way and World War II looming, military themes often pervade Japanese advertising. Here a warplane drops beer bottle tops in an advertisement for Sakura Beer - and for raising war funds.
In a direct take on the Statue of Liberty, an attractive Japanese woman holds aloft not a torch, but a glass of Sakura beer
Inexplicably, a giant elephant holds a bottle of Sakura beer with its trunk and stands on its back legs, while masses of people jubilate. Perhaps a new circus show was popular in Japan at this time? (c. 1925).