Publisher/東峰書房

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This is a collection of works edited by the renowned Japanese painter and essayist, Shohachi Kimura. As a painter, he is famous for his illustrations, and he illustrated "Bokuto Kidan," one of Nagai Kafu's greatest masterpieces. On the other hand, he also made a name for himself as a writer, writing essays on art and on the customs and manners of Tokyo, past and present, and he is an artist who left behind a large body of work before and after the war. This book is a unique volume that focuses on "Ginza," a place that has left its mark on the history of Japanese photography. The "Ginza Area" section, which is mainly text-based and includes woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige IV and illustrations by Inoue Yasuji, is full of highlights and things to read, but the separate volume "Album Ginza Hachicho" is wonderful. It is a "panorama" created by stitching together photographs of the facades of shops facing Chuo-dori, taken by his friend Suzuki Yoshikazu under as similar weather and time conditions as possible. Often compared to Edward Ruscha's masterpiece "Every Building on the Sunset Strip," this is a valuable collection of works completed more than 10 years before Ruscha's creation in 1966.