Gross Japan - Dai Nippon
Here is a stunning book by famous japanese Photographer Younosuke Natori.
The book is depicting the japanese culture and customs in wonderful photo gravure photos taken
with a Leica camera. The last pages show occupied Korea and japanese christians.
This book with the Original Dust Jacket is extremely rare!
Softcover Scarce Second Edition 23 pages intro and 144 pages photo part ~160 high quality photogravure photos!! | In good exterior and near fine interior condition.
With the rare original Dust Jacket included, which is a bit worn and stained, age toning and minor traces of use and age to pages, else ok. All pages are complete and tight in the binding! Approx/Measurements: 10-1/2" x 8-1/2" 1.45 lbs. |
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from Younosuke Natori
Published by Karl Specht Verlag, Starnberg am See
Background info about the author:
Yonosuke Natori (?? ??? Natori Yonosuke, September 3, 1910 - November 23, 1962) was a Japanese photographer and editor.
Born in Tokyo on 3 September 1910, Natori studied at Keio normal school but upon graduation went with his mother to Munich, where he studied at a school of arts and crafts. He became interested in photography and in 1931 obtained a Leica, later that year getting a contract to work as a photographer for Ullstein, which in 1933 sent him to Manchuria to cover the Mukden Incident. After immediate hostilities there had ended, Natori went to Japan and set up the first Nihon Kobo, and when that collapsed set up the second, working on its magazine Nippon. He went to Berlin for the 1936 Olympics, and thence went directly to the US, getting some of his photographs taken there published by Life and in 1937 becoming the first Japanese photographer to be contracted to that magazine.
Natori returned to Japan and Japanese-held China, and worked through the wartime years on various Japanese propaganda organs, such as Shanghai and Canton.
In 1947, Natori set up Shukan San Nyusu (Weekly Sun News), inspired by Life and similar western magazines (though published on inferior paper). This ended two years later, whereupon Natori edited and also did photography for Iwanami Shashin Bunko (1950–59). He was busy in the fifties and made a number of trips outside Japan: to China in 1956, and to Europe every year from 1959 to 1962, toward the end of this period photographing romanesque sculpture and architecture.
Natori died in Tokyo on 23 November 1962.
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