The Confusion Era: Art and Culture of Japan During the Allied Occupation, 1945-1952 Hayakawa Yoshio, "Caron Sewing School. . .Students Wanted," 1951. Offset print, 72.8 x 51.5 cm. This poster advertising a sewing school reflects the need for self-reliance during the postwar recovery period. Hayakawa Yoshio (born 1917), commisioned for this poster by a sewing school in Osaka, was a young graphic designer who came into his own following the war.                   courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution