The end of the year always seems like the appropriate time to clear out my overwhelming cache of saved images. Of course there are lots of travel posters. This time I found a small collection of Japanese travel related posters. Most are from the Taishō period (大正時代 Taishō jidai?), or Taishō era, which is a period in the history of Japan dating from July 30, 1912, to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of the Emperor Taishō”. Some of the posters carry over to the early Shōwa era: Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) reigned from 1926 to 1989.