"Clearly show your train pass"

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Title

"Clearly show your train pass"

Subject

Vintage Japanese Manner Posters

Description

This manner poster depicts Napolean Bonaparte holding a partially concealed train pass. The poster is reminding all passengers to clearly show their train passes to the station attendant when passing through the gates. The background represents a dictionary page referencing Napoloean's famous quote, "The word 'impossible' is not in my dictionary".

Creator

Hideya Kawakita

Source

Manner Poster 100 

Publisher

Teito Rapid Transit Authority

Date

1983

Format

Print poster

Language

Japanese

Type

Manner poster

Citation

Hideya Kawakita , “"Clearly show your train pass",” Visualizing Cities Lab - Tokyo, accessed March 10, 2025, https://tokyo.visualizingcitieslab.org/items/show/23.

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