Nippon Yusen Kaisha Japan Mail Steamship Co.

Original antique cruise travel poster issued by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha shipping company to promote its home and foreign passenger services with its fleet of 80 vessels featuring a lady in a traditional decorated blue kimono with floral motifs and a flower in her hair, holding a fan as she stands on the wooden deck of a luxury liner by the railing, the view at sea to boats and ships on the calm reflective water with the sun on the horizon and more passengers on the ship's decks including a child in a sailor's uniform and men in smart Western suits, crew members and a captain looking through binoculars, a world map showing the company's global routes and the office addresses in Tokyo and London below with a list of the schedules of the Regular Sailings of Steamship Lines Under Mail Contract with the Imperial Government next to a 1912 calendar on a life buoy with an NYK red and white striped flag on a wicker chair on the side. Known as NYK Line the Japan Mail Steamship Company / 日本郵船株式会社 was founded 1885. Printed by Mitsuma Printing Works Ginza Tokyo. Good condition, restored tears, restored paper losses, staining, foxing, backed on linen.