Festival of Suwa Shrine in Nagasaki
Artist
Designer Unknown
Datec. 1933
Dimensions23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (59.7 x 44.5 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Peter A. Blatz
Object numberPH.133
DescriptionThe four-hundred-year-old festival of Suwa Shrine is held in Nagasaki, Japan each year on October 7–9. The festival features performances each year by five to seven groups representing the city's various districts. Each participates in the festival only once every seven years. In this poster promoting the festival, the text is integrated with the stylized forms of the three ritual archers at the center of the image who appear close together in a diagonal line.On View
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