Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line) Vintage Menu Prints

Imperial Japan’s flagship line — transpacific menus from 1900

Founded in 1885, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (the ‘NYK Line’) was Imperial Japan’s flagship shipping company. Its early 1900s transpacific menus uniquely blend Western fine dining conventions with Japanese imperial typography — a singular category in our archive.

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