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Description
2 volumes : illustrations (some color), maps . Volume [2]: Arubamu, Ginza Hatchō (folded accordion style, 19 cm), photographed by Yoshikazu Suzuki. 付(別冊 1冊 19cm):アルバム。銀座八丁. "Suzuki's work predating by 10 years Ruscha's Every Building on the Sunset Strip, but presenting Ginza in a similar fashion."--AbeBooks website (viewed on October 21, 2014) A visual document of Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. As Japan was recovering from World War II, Kimura and Suzuki set out to document the history and architecture of the Ginza district in Tokyo. The finished project, Ginza Kaiwai, contains two separate volumes. The main volume [1] has detailed text, illustrations, drawings, woodblock prints, and hand-drawn maps of the entire district. The supplement [2], Arubamu, Ginza Hatchō, by Suzuki, is a panoramic photo, folded accordion style, documenting the length of the main boulevard Ginza-dori.-- Adapted from Ohio State University Library webpage. In Japanese. Volume [1] in slipcase. Each volume housed in original cardboard two-piece box. Box has mounted title label. SEI.
ISBN
Suzuki_GinzaKaiwai.pdf
Publication Date
1954
Imprint / Year
Tōkyō : Tōhō Shobō, Shōwa 29 [1954]
Publisher
Shōwa 29
City
Tōhō Shobō
Keywords
panoramic photography; folded books; text (layout feature); illustration (process); drawing (image-making); woodcuts (prints); historical maps; documentary photography; black-and-white photographs; Ginza, Tokyo, Tōkyō, Kanto, Japan; Tokyo, Tōkyō, Kanto, Japan; artists' books
Disciplines
Photography
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Recommended Citation
"Ginza Kaiwai / Kimura Sōhachi Hencho. 銀座界隈 / 木村荘八編著" (1954). Photography. 45.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_photography/45