The red circle — the Hinomaru, the rising sun at the centre of the Japanese flag — is one of the most immediately legible national symbols in the world and one of the most graphically powerful. At its simplest, a red disc on a white or black ground, it distils the entire visual language of Japan into a single confident gesture: the sun rising above the Pacific, Japan as the land of the rising sun, an image that connects the country's ancient cosmological identity to its modern graphic design sensibility.

The 98types Japan Art Print and Japan Poster collection takes this visual tradition and translates it into wall art for contemporary interiors. The red circle with the word TOKYO placed at its centre — the city's name in bold Latin typography, its kanji equivalent beneath — is the print that communicates both the history and the present of Japanese visual culture simultaneously. It is the print that works in a minimalist Japandi bedroom, in a design-focused home office, in a gallery wall alongside a koi fish print and a Mount Fuji landscape. It is graphic, immediate, and culturally specific.

Tokyo is the world's largest metropolitan area and one of the most visually rich cities on earth: the neon of Shinjuku, the calm of Yanaka, the futurism of Odaiba, the tradition of Asakusa. The city map prints for Tokyo in the 98types collection extend the graphic Japan wall art into cartographic territory — the entire city at street level, available in circular or full-page formats.

The koi fish (koi, 鯉) occupies a specific position in Japanese cultural symbolism that makes it one of the most appropriate motifs for wall art: it represents good fortune, perseverance in adversity, strength, and the achievement of ambition through sustained effort. The legend that a koi swimming upstream and leaping the waterfall at Dragon Gate transforms into a dragon is one of the most widely known pieces of East Asian folklore, and it gives the koi fish a cultural depth that purely decorative animal motifs do not carry.

The 98types Koi Fish Art Print brings the peaceful symbolism and vibrant colour of Japanese koi to your walls. The print blends bold graphic illustration with the timeless beauty of Japanese nature art — the orange and white koi moving through blue water, lotus flowers floating at the surface, water ripples spreading outward in the concentric circles that ukiyo-e artists perfected over centuries. It is a print that carries the specific quality of Japanese visual culture: the harmony between precision and organic form, between careful observation of the natural world and the decision to represent it as an argument about beauty rather than a document of appearances.

In a Japandi interior — the aesthetic that combines Japanese minimalism with Scandinavian design principles — the Koi Fish print works as the single piece of colour and visual complexity in an otherwise restrained room. The specific palette of orange, white and water-blue against a pale or natural wall creates the kind of visual focus that good Japanese art always provides: a point of contemplation in a field of calm.

Mount Fuji (Fuji-san, 富士山) is the most depicted subject in Japanese visual art history — from Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views to Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views, from Kawase Hasui's shin-hanga landscapes to the modern graphic design that appears in Tokyo convenience stores. The sacred mountain, dormant volcano and national symbol simultaneously, has been the central argument of Japanese landscape art for four centuries: the specific combination of the perfect cone, the seasonal cherry blossoms at its base, the reflection in the calm waters of Lake Kawaguchi, that makes Fuji-san the most complete representation of what Japanese visual culture understands beauty to be.

The 98types Mount Fuji Art Poster takes this tradition and makes it available from £3. The print uses the graphic economy of the ukiyo-e tradition — the mountain in silhouette, the red peak against a dawn sky, the cherry blossoms blooming in the foreground — to create a wall art piece that communicates centuries of Japanese aesthetic philosophy in a single image.

The concept of wabi-sabi — finding beauty in imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness — is the philosophical tradition that gives Japanese landscape art its specific emotional register. The falling cherry blossom petals in a Mount Fuji print are not simply decorative. They are a statement about the nature of beauty: that it is most beautiful precisely because it does not last. A Mount Fuji print on a bedroom wall is a daily reminder of this specific Japanese wisdom about how to live.

The samurai and the geisha represent the two most internationally recognised expressions of Japanese traditional culture: the warrior with his code of honour (bushido, 武士道) and the artist with her code of aesthetic refinement. Both are frequently misunderstood in Western culture, and both produce wall art that is richer and more complex than the stereotype suggests.

The 98types Samurai Art Print draws on the tradition of Japanese warrior illustration that runs from the musha-e woodblock prints of Kuniyoshi through to modern graphic design. The samurai in Japanese visual culture is not simply a warrior -- he is the embodiment of a philosophical position about the relationship between action, discipline, beauty and death. The most celebrated samurai prints combine the precision of armour design (every plate, every lacing pattern rendered with forensic accuracy) with the visual drama of dynamic composition: the warrior in motion, the katana raised, the specific quality of controlled power that defines the bushido ideal.

The Geisha Art Print places the human figure at the centre of the Japanese aesthetic tradition in a different register: elegance, skill, the perfection of art through years of dedicated practice, the specific visual vocabulary of the kimono, the obi, the ornamental hairpins, the white face and the carefully shaped lips. The geisha print in Japanese visual culture is not a decorative image -- it is a document of a specific form of human excellence, the kind of excellence that only decades of practice in a specific tradition can produce.