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title: '銃後の總親和 第二回總選挙 (Total Harmony on the Home Front: Second General Election), Taiwan'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jugo-no-soshinwa-taiwan-election-1939/
description: A red, black and yellow poster shows a hand in a dark sleeve dropping a ballot into a white box marked with a red sun disc and hung with paper shrine…
section: Collection
---

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[![銃後の總親和 第二回總選挙 (Total Harmony on the Home Front: Second General Election), Taiwan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/jugo-no-soshinwa-taiwan-election-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/jugo-no-soshinwa-taiwan-election-1939.jpg)

# 銃後の總親和 第二回總選挙 (Total Harmony on the Home Front: Second General Election), Taiwan

A red, black and yellow poster shows a hand in a dark sleeve dropping a ballot into a white box marked with a red sun disc and hung with paper shrine streamers, under two silhouetted aircraft. The title is 'Total Harmony on the Home Front'. The flag, shrine trimmings and warplanes are attached to the act of voting, and the virtue word 'harmony' stands where any statement of what is being decided would be.

- **Date:** October 1939
- **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii)
- **Made by:** Taiwan Local Autonomy Association (台湾地方自治協会), Taihoku; first-prize entry in its poster competition
- **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia)
- **Country:** [Empire of Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=empire-of-japan)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed)
- **Regime:** [Showa Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=showa-japan)
- **Leader:** [Nobuyuki Abe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=nobuyuki-abe)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front), [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism)
- **Event:** [Taiwan Local Elections 1939](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=taiwan-local-elections-1939)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (from Taiwan chihō gyōsei, Taiwan Local Autonomy Association, October 1939)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poster_of_the_election_in_Taiwan_1939.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (Japanese organisational work, 1939; 50-year term expired before 1996; per Commons) Taiwan Local Autonomy Association (台湾地方自治協会), poster from 臺灣地方行政, October 1939, via Wikimedia Commons (PD-Japan).

## Text on the object

Original (Japanese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[Title across the top, read right to left:] 銃後の總親和
[Right, vertical:] 第二回總選挙
[Left, vertical:] 十一月二十二日
[Bottom, white on black, right to left:] 台湾地方自治協会
[Footer:] 本會募集　一等當選ポスター
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Total harmony on the home front. Second general election. 22 November. Taiwan Local Autonomy Association. Solicited by this association: first-prize winning poster.
```

The title and footer run right to left, as printed. The election date is read from the 960 px scan (十一月二十二日); the first two glyphs are close together.

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