[Japanese characters:] Gendai ryoki sentan zukan [AN ILLUSTRATED REFERENCE OF MODERN NOVELTIES.]

Bookseller Notes

A fascinating cultural primer, showing the impact of Western culture - and others, but Western primarily - on twentieth-century Japan, through a series of photographs which include depictions of various sports and pursuits (Amelia Earhart is shown waving from her plane), architecture, art and film, with a strong predilection for the bizarre. By far the greatest emphasis is given to the female form, particularly dancing girls - Josephine Baker is given the centre-fold - a theme which is continued rather delightfully in the illustrations applied to the slipcase.Scarce, with 7 holdings on WorldCat (the British Library, 2 in Japan, and 4 in the US).