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(23) Saw-toothed facade: Bunkyo-ku vented kanban kenchiku

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(22) “Inaka kanban” in Mobara city 伊勢屋食料品

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(21) Nishi-Ogikubo Station street scenes

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(20) Fruit store in Ogikubo

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(18) Nishi-nippori kanban kenchiku at dusk

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(16) Tabata Ginza shopping district 「田端銀座商店街」

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(15) Oi, Shinagawa (a French bakery)

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(9) Minami-senju and Naka-dori shotengai 南千住仲通り商店街

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“I am waiting” for scenes from Yokohama’s waterfront

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(8) Noge Joyful, Nogecho, Yokohama

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(7) Tsukishima 月島

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Billboard architecture forms: glazed brick 施ゆうれんが

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Japanese signboard architecture, an introduction 看板建築

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(4) Odawara signboard architecture

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(3) Row of buildings, Tokorozawa, Saitama

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(2) Ikegami station billboard architecture

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(1) Aoba shopping district, Higashimurayama 青葉商店街

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Billboard architecture in books

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Kanban kenchiku toys and scale models

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Billboard architecture and Miyazaki’s ‘Spirited Away’

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Double-fronted billboard architecture

January 24, 2017September 30, 2017 Clark Parker

(19) Asakusa, Street of Shame (1956) 赤線地帯

December 14, 2016July 26, 2017 Clark Parker

Billboard architecture in 1967 Japan

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