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Beer In Ads #1140: Nippon Beer On The Train

March 24, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is for the Nippon Brewery, from 1912. Showing a couple of Geishas on a train, with a vendor at the station offering them beer from a full basket. Through the window on the other side of the train is a large factory, which is presumably the brewery.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History, Japan



Comments

  1. Scoats says

    March 25, 2014 at 3:18 am

    Geishas traveled first class, who knew? I’m also surprised at the amount of English, not just for first class, but on the bottle labels too.

  2. Beerman49 says

    March 28, 2014 at 2:09 am

    The English on the beer bottles doesn’t surprise me – Americans (rich industrialists, plus baseball players & coaches) had presence in Japan before Hirohito went nuts. Geishas traveling on trains seems odd – they were (& still are) pretty much local. Ads forever have turned a lot into “Fantasyland”.

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