January 19, 2010

Oedipus at Hiroshima - Living Design in Japan

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17 comments:

  1. love to see your site.
    specially japanese
    thanks

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  2. Very nice! The Agatha Christie one is upside down though; not sure if it's meant to be that way.

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  3. Thanks Cy. Luckily flickr makes it easy to rotate photos!

    Will

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  4. Japanese are the best!

    Great findings.

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  5. "Oikawa Masamichi, Out with the Books, Into the Streets, 1969 poster

    related to the Tokyo Kid Brothers lp?"

    The Tokyo Kid Brothers LP is the soundtrack to a Shuji Terayama film, and I'm assuming that's what the poster is for as well, since the poster 2 above it (La Marie Vision) is a poster for a Terayama play!

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  6. Thanks Mike, I'll have to try to see that movie.

    The poster is definitely for the Terayama play. I like to think there was live musical accompaniment.

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  7. You're welcome! ;-) Feel free to ask any time.

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  8. BTW, "The Sanitation of Cities Starts with a Sewage System" title could be literally translated as "The Health of a City's People Starts with Sewage," which is amusingly (to me) ambiguous. ;-) (It's also written from right to left instead of left to right, which is more common in pre-war books. And it's put out by the Tokyo City Hall!)

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  9. fantastic stuff! you might take a look at this...i think you would like it...

    http://magicofjuju.blogspot.com/search?q=sound+cartoon

    at one point it was somewhat findable, but the record inclusion makes it generally PRICEY!

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  10. Thank you for posting these; they are fantastic and strangely ahead of their time.

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  11. Takeo stood out for me.

    See: http://www.rarebook.com/takei.html

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  12. Takei is one of my favorite illustrators. A friend recently picked up some of his books from me while in Japan -- posts to come if I can figure out how to scan them without hurting them.

    I featured some images from that site here (having thought long and hard about who I might kill for $45,000), and did this previous post on him. Also see this cover.

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  13. Ha! I was thinking maybe I should search the site for 'Takei' but decided I'd wing it. I should know better. I look forward to the future posts anyways. And good luck with the $45K.

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  14. Japanese designs and arts has is very unique and has a very amazing story. I was very fascinated in their culture. Those prints are gorgeous. Thank you for sharing it.

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  15. This is an AWESOME blog! So many inspiring images! can't wait to pour through all the posts

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