What makes (photography) obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting but it is the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death.” - Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki: Sensuality, Nostalgia, and Nature in the Flesh
Ōtsuji Kiyoji - 大辻清司, Yasuhiro Ishimoto - 石元 泰博, Japan
Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki on the Tokyo Metro, 1970s.
Asahi Weekly Magazine, June 30, 1934
An example of a MOGA, a Modern Garu (Modern Girl):
Young Tokyo women with short hair wearing western clothes, following the latest fashion of western women in Berlin* and other centers Modernism.
*in Germany these women where labled “Neue Frau” (New Woman).
(Source: Yahoo! Japan)
EIRYU — QUEEN of the POSTCARD GEISHAS (1) by Okinawa Soba on Flickr.
Judging by the amount of photographs and postcards found today that depict this young Meiji-era Geisha, she rivaled all others for popularity.
The sampling of postcard images in this EIRYU Set are all from postcards about 100 years old or more, and represent only a few of the many that may be found.
www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/sets/72157623479583013/
Most are hand colored collotype prints, but a few are gelatin silver prints.
Although other Maiko and Geisha might have been more famous, it is hard to beat the photographs of EIRYU for getting a wider variety of poses, Kimonos, and props.
PS. Want to know what EIRYU and all of her friends and “sisters” did as a real Geisha ? Read this, and feel a bit closer to her and all the other girls : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2802613366/
Ca.1908-12 hand-colored collotype print.
Video of Lieko Shiga’s new book “Rasen Kaigan”, published by Akaaka, Tokyo 2013
![[caption:] Masao Horino: The Character of Greater Tokyo. Art Direction: Takao Itagaki, Chuokoron magazine, Chuokoron-sha, October, 1931
Part I of my essay on Yutaka Takanashi for Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris:Yutaka Takanashi - Towards the City (including a short history of the “Provoke” era), Part I
In the past years I have been involved in introducing the photographic work of Yutaka Takanashi to…
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[caption:] Masao Horino: The Character of Greater Tokyo. Art Direction: Takao Itagaki, Chuokoron magazine, Chuokoron-sha, October, 1931
Part I of my essay on Yutaka Takanashi for Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris:
Yutaka Takanashi - Towards the City (including a short history of the “Provoke” era), Part I
In the past years I have been involved in introducing the photographic work of Yutaka Takanashi to…
Kurazo Murota: Catalog cover, 1927
Cover of Nippon magazine, issue #2, Jan. 1935
(Source: pinktentacle.com)
Design by Shujiro Shimomura, 1928
(Source: pinktentacle.com)
