10 inspiring Japanese posters

Theatre first: a blurred white glow on a dark ground, the title つく、きえる written vertically in fine strokes, and the New National Theatre Tokyo logo set at the foot of the sheet.

The second poster is a single brush ring on black, drawn in one pass, with the title 時差 and a line of names in white underneath. Two sheets, two ways of leaving a page mostly empty.

The list runs from art school to national theatre. Institutions name the designers; the posters here keep the credit small and the image large.