#3Bar Sourire (To be Sold as a Complete Set of 6)

Bar Sourire—French for 'smile'—is among the more explicitly Western-influenced subjects in this six-print set. French-named cafés and bars proliferated in the Ginza district during the 1920s and 1930s as markers of cosmopolitan aspiration, and Oda treats the subject with the same observational directness he applied to bridges and harbors elsewhere. The print likely depicts either the bar's facade with illuminated signage or an interior glimpsed through glass. The French name rendered in Latin characters within a Japanese woodblock print underscores the cultural hybridity Oda documented throughout his urban work, and the print occupies a central position in the set's narrative arc through a Tokyo evening.