Poster Research

 Late 1800's

 (1870 something)

 (SHIGEO FUKUDA 1970s)

 (SHIGEO FUKUDA 1970s)

 (SHIGEO FUKUDA 1970s)

 (SHIGEO FUKUDA late 1970s)

 (SHIGEO FUKUDA 1980s)

 (SHIGEO FUKUDA 1980's)

 (SHIGEO FUKUDA 1980's)

 (SHIGEO FUKUDA 1980's)

 (1970-80  by SHIGEO FUKUDA can't remember but THIS ONE IS AWESOME)

The Japanese posters dated from 70-80's were created by Shigeo Fukuda for a museum (I could not find which particular museum he worked for). Each poster was done for an exhibit though, and this website has more of his design http://gurafiku.tumblr.com/tagged/shigeo_fukuda. There is more about Shigeo Fukuda here at the wiki link that I've provided. He was given much praise for his work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeo_Fukuda

A lot of the other poster pieces I found were on this website http://gurafiku.tumblr.com/, which provides an archive of amazing Japanese graphic design that I find extremely inspiring.