Manchoukuo. A Comprehensive Pictorial Presentation.

Edité par Asahi Shimbun-sha, Tokyo, 1940

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First edition of this monumental and exceptionally scarce state-sponsored photobook, issued under the auspices of the Information Office of the State Council of Manchuria (Manshukoku kokumuin kohosho) and published by Asahi Shimbun at the height of the Japanese imperial project in Northeast Asia. Entirely composed of expansive double-page photographic essays, the volume offers a carefully orchestrated visual narrative of Manchukuo as a modern, orderly, and culturally harmonious polity. Thematically arranged sections – Growing Manchoukuo; Spotlight on Manchoukuo; Population Basis of Manchoukuoan Progress; Religion; Meltingpot of Languages; Fantastic Symbols of Sculptured Art; Food for All Tastes, among others – advance a comprehensive portrait of industry, agriculture, infrastructure, religious practice, ethnic diversity, and geography. Photo-montage techniques, sweeping panoramas, and dynamic compositional devices lend the work a visual rhetoric indebted to contemporary European and Japanese modernist design, while the trilingual text articulates an overtly patriotic and developmentalist ideology. The book’s large format amplifies its propagandistic intent: factories, railways, harvests, and ceremonial pageantry unfold across full spreads with persuasive theatricality. Colour plates punctuate the predominantly monochrome sequence, heightening its effect as both documentary spectacle and political instrument. The synthesis of modernist photobook aesthetics with imperial state messaging renders the work an arresting artefact of wartime visual culture. Not listed in Heiting & Kaneko, The Japanese Photobook and Morioka, Books on Japan 1931-1972. Folio (33.5 x 25.8 cm). Biligual text in English and Japanese. Original light brown cloth, title lettered to the front cover and spine. With the publisher’s pictorial dustwrapper. Cloth and jacket with minor rubbing at the extremities and a few light signs of handling. A very well-preserved copy overall, the contents notably fresh and clean of this extraordinary propaganda photobook – at once visually ambitious and historically revealing.…

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Titre
Manchoukuo. A Comprehensive Pictorial Presentation.
Auteur
MATSUNO, Shikio (ed.)
Éditeur
Asahi Shimbun-sha, Tokyo
Année de publication
1940
État de l'article
Très bon
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