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Master Japanese designer Ikko Tanaka (1930–2002) is internationally renowned for his cultural posters. He produced posters for the Kanze School of the No Theatre for over 20 years during his career. This Kanze No Theatre (VIII) Performing Arts poster originally printed in 1961 (1990 Reproduction by Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. shown here) is an experiment of Japanese typography at a time when Western lettering was the norm. It consists of the titles of the plays, the performers’ names and the performance location in Chinese (kanji) characters. The colors used evoke the embroidered costumes set against a black background. The design contains the bare essentials – classic, elegant and modern, much like the No Theatre and Chinese poetry itself. The right edge reads “8th Sankei Kanze No”. This poster has received great acclaim in Japan and abroad and has been reproduced many times.
