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Burton HOLMES / YOKOO Tadanori. Nihon Genkei : Photographs of Japan in Meiji Taisho (1975)



HOLMES Burton / YOKOO Tadanori. Nihon Genkei: Karaa de Miru Meiji Taisho no Nihon (Mirages of Japan : Color Scenes of Japan in the Meiji & Taisho Periods). Color Document. Tokyo : Yomiuri Shinbun-sha, 1975.OUT OF STOCK

Description — In-4° (29 x 20.5 x 1 cm), 136 p., 700 g.
Pict. softcover, color and b&w photographs on color paper. Layout by Tadanori YOKOO. Text in Japanese.
Couv. souple ill., photographies coul. et n&b sur papier de couleur. Maquette par YOKOO Tadanori. Texte en japonais.

État / Condition — Good-Decent (cover in average cond., worn; otherwise VG).
Bon-Correct (couv. en état moyen, frottée ; sinon TB).

Remarques & avis / Review — About 180 photographs of Japan and the Japanese in Meiji / Taisho periods, sorted out by theme, by the famous American traveler and lecturer Burton HOLMES, who first came to Japan in 1892 and left a fantastic testimony concerning Japanese life and customs at the turn of the century, in portraits and landscapes, and pictures of temples, ryokans, cities, red light districts, hot springs, public baths and much more. A fine volume, great layout and cover by Tadanori YOKOO.

Environ 180 photographies du Japon et des Japonais pendant les ères Meiji / Taisho, classées par thème, par le fameux voyageur et conférencier américain Burton HOLMES, qui vint pour la première fois au Japon en 1892 et laissa un fantastique témoignage concernant la vie et des coutumes japonaises au tournant du siècle, en portraits et paysages, et photos de temples, ryokans, villes, quartiers de prostitution, sources d'eau chaude, bains publics, etc. Beau volume, et superbes maquette et couverture par YOKOO Tadanori.

Divers / Misc. — Table of contents:

Landscapes
(Fujisan / Hakone / Matsushima / Tsushiura / Ikaho / Nikko / Tenryu / Enoshima & Kamakura / Amanohashidate / Koyasan / Nara / Miyajima / Matsue / Izumo / etc. )

Women
Men
Children

The Large Cities
(Tokyo / Yokohama / Kobe / Kyoto)

The Japanese

Burton

Essays by
NAGAI Tatsuo / IKEDA Yasaburo / SETOUCHI Jakucho / WAKAMORI Taro / TAKAHASHI Yoshitaka / KATA Koji / FUJIMOTO Giichi / MUSHIAKE Aromu / KAGEYAMA Koyo / NAKAMURA Ganjiro / YOKOO Tadanori




















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