A: 45, 2 Chome, Izumi, Suginami City, Tokyo, Japan
The earliest examples of Japanese printed silk in which the date forms part of the pattern are dated 734 CE.
"These dates [also 740] are the earliest examples in the world of block printed script, and it is not surprising to find that they antedate by only a few years the first block prints on paper from Japan" (Carter, Invention of Printing in China 2nd ed [1955] 195).