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
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
Country: Empire of Japan
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Mixed
Regime: Showa Japan
Leader: Nobuyuki Abe
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes: Elections and party politics, Home front, Empire and colonialism
Event: Taiwan Local Elections 1939
Techniques: Transfer 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), 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.