Don't go looking for any blizzards of blossom or visual vows of self-discipline at the Japanese Poster Artists - Cherry Blossom and Asceticism exhibition at the Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) in Tseung Kwan O.
Don't search either for woodblock-rendered tsunami scenes, or delicately depicted fisherfolk crossing flimsy bridges under starry skies. You're in the wrong century for all that.
Instead, at this exhibition mounted in conjunction with Zurich's Museum of Design, steel yourself for blasts of widely divergent styles of poster art rendered with wit, defiance, bravado and humour.
Under the auspices of Rubie Lee, assistant curatorial project officer, and Queenie Lau, curator at HKDI's external affairs office, the meaning and significance of certain symbols are revealed during a preview.
The 200-plus posters on show are copies of the originals, which remain in the Zurich collection, but that hardly dilutes the exhibition's impact.
"The posters were reproduced in Hong Kong, under the direction of the Museum of Design, on high-quality Epson enhanced matt paper, and we'll keep them after the event," says Lau. "We're a design school, not a museum, so what matters is the content of the exhibition, as well as teaching and learning and educating the general public."