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阿修羅帖 / 著作者伊東忠太, 杉村廣太郎.
Ashura chō / chosakusha Itō Chūta, Sugimura Kōtarō.
1920-1921
100 color woodcut prints in each volumes totalling 500 prints. Each page contains half page woodcut print illustration and a satirical commentary. End of each volume contains the list of illustration's titles and the names of the commentaitor. The theme of these pictures are the world situation at that time when the WW I was about to start. Each country in the world is depicted as a demon, an animal, or a comic figure to interpret the situation, speculation etc. between countries.
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Monsters and Machines
This selection focuses on the bestiary’s particular vigor in the visual satire of the period from the onset of World War I through the end of the Cold War —what historian Eric Hobsbawm called “the age of extremes” — a time of ideologically-fueled hostilities of unprecedented scale and destructive consequence that eventually brought humanity to the brink of self-annihilation.
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- Publisher
- Tōkyō-shi Kanda-ku : Kokusui Shuppansha, -Taishō 10 [1921]
- 東京市神田区 : 國粋出版社, -大正 9-10 [1920-1921]
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- Language
- Japanese
- Notes
- Cataloged from volume 4 cover.
- Signed as Sugimura Kōtarō with Sojinkan red stamp below his signature in colophon. Sugimura Sojinkan is his pen name.
- Signed as 杉村廣太郎 with 楚人冠 red stamp below his signature in colophon. 杉村楚人冠 is his pen name.
- Chosakuken shoyū printed in colophon in each volume.
- 著作権所有 printed in colophon in each volume.
- Itō Chūta is an architect. During the WW I, he made 500 woodcut prints caricature cartoons for his own amusement. Had no intention of publishing these prints but when he showed to his friend Arashida Eisuke, the owner of Kokusui shuppansha, he highly recommended publishing these prints. Sugimura, who was a newspaper reporter, gathered well-known people to write a comment on each of his prints.
- Volume number ni (2) is printed on cover of volume 1.
- Volume number 弐(2) is printed on cover of volume 1.
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