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Japanese Protest Books] Collection of 39 Japanese Protest Books 87 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, New York 11937 T: 631-324-1131 F: 31-324-1191 E: [email protected] W: www.harpersbooks.com [Japanese Protest Books] Collection of 39 Japanese Protest Books [Japan: Various Publishers, 1960–1978.]. First Editions. Quartos. Collection of 39 Japanese protest books from a private collection, representative of the highlights of the genre, assembled over the course of several years and several trips to Japan. Includes seminal publications by Kazuo Kitai, Tadao Mitome, Osamu Nagahama, Shomei Tomatsu, and Takashi Hamaguchi, among other photographers. Uniformly in very good to fine condition in various original bindings. Books are housed in custom-made clamshell boxes. $48,000.00 [Japanese Protest Books] Collection of 39 Japanese Protest Books List of Featured Titles: 1. (All Japan Garrison Forces Labor Union Okinawa Branch). Document Zengunro Tososhi / History of the Struggle of the All Japan Garrison Forces Labor Union. Okinawa: Ryukyushinpo-sha, 1978. First Edition. Quarto. A document of student and labor demonstrations in Okinawa, complied by the local Okinawan newspaper. No photographers credited. Fine in a near fine jacket with a little edgewear. 2. (All Japan Students - Photographers Association). Hiroshima Hiroshima Hiroshima. Tokyo: 491, 1972. First Edition. Quarto. Anthology of student images of Hiroshima shot in the Provoke style. Light wear, else near fine in navy blue boards as issued. 3. FUKUSHIMA, Kikujiro. Report from a Battlefield: Sanrizuka 1967-1977. Tokyo: Shakai Hyoronsha, 1977. First Edition. Quarto. Japanese protest book. Very thorough documentation of the battle over Narita Airport, with an introduction and some captions in English. Gripping bw images of all facets of the struggle. The first copy we have seen or handled. Fine in wrappers, fine photo-illustrated jacket. 4. FUKUSHIMA, Kikujiro. Gasu Dan no Tanima Kara no Hokoku / A Report from the Valley of the Gas War. Tokyo: M.P.S. Shuppanbu, 1969. First Edition. Quarto. Excellent images of the 1969 Tokyo student protests. Only one copy in OCLC, and the first copy I have seen. Near fine in black wrappers in an almost near fine jacket with two small, shallow chips from the back panel. 5. HAMAGUCHI, Takashai. The Shudders of Narita Airport. [Tokyo]: Self-published, 1978. 6. AMAGUCHI, Takashi. Document Angle. Tokyo: Nippon Camera-sha (1973). First Edition. Small quarto. Images from a cross-section of Japanese life, shot in a variety of styles that encapsulate the movements of the time: from Provoke, to the gritty realism of Miyako Ishiuchi, to the banal eroticism of Araki. Boards a little bowed, else near fine in a near fine jacket. 7. HAMAGUCHI, Takashi. Documentary Photographs of Takashi Hamaguchi. Tokyo: Nippon Camera-sha (1969). First Edition. Small quarto. Great juxtaposition of Hamaguchi's documentary work, with extraordinary war and protest pictures. 8. HAMAGUCHI, Takashi. Document Sanrizuka Junen no Kiroku / Document Sanrizuka Record for 10 Years. Tokyo: Nihon Sahshin Kikaku, 1977. First Edition. Small quarto. SIGNED by Hamiguchi in Kanji. Hamaguchi's images of the protests surrounding the building of Narita Airport in Tokyo. Fine in a fine jacket with the publisher's original acetate sleeve (no obi was issued). 9. HAMAGUCHI, Takashi. Daigaku Toso Nanaju-nen Ampo (Anpo) E. Tokyo: Yuzankaku Shuppan, 1969. 10. HAMAYA, Hiroshi. Ikari to Kanashimi no Kiroku / Record of Anger and Sadness. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1960. First Edition. Small quarto. An early protest book - likely the first major example - by a photographer best-known for his photographs of Japan's snow country. The book documents riots and protests resulting from the ratification of the 1960 Security Treaty between Japan and the United States. At the time Hamaya was one of Japan's leading photographers, yet these images were censored from the mainstream press, leading to the creation of small, independent, and inexpensively produced volumes that constitute the beginning of the protest book culture in Japanese photography. Hamaya's photograph of left- wing leader Michiko Kanba, brutally beaten to death by the police, was later published by Life magazine and was directly responsible for his subsequent inclusion in Magnum. 11. HANABUSA, Sinzo. Noson karano shoen / Testimony by the Farmers. Tokyo: Asahi-shinbunsha, 1971. First Edition. Quarto. Near fine in wrappers with publisher's belly band and original acetate. 12 ISHIKAWA, Bunyo. The Vietnam War and the People. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha (1971). First Edition. Quarto. Images and text by Ishikawa. Riveting images that rival the best documentary work of the Vietnam War. The Japanese photographers who covered the war (Ishikawa, Kyochi Sawada, Keisaburo Shimamoto) have been woefully under appreciated in the Western photographic world. Just about fine in wrappers with the original red bellyband and publisher's thin acetate jacket. 13. (Japanese protest book). 10.21 towa nanika / What is October 21st? Np: Privately published [1969]. First Edition. Small octavo. A small book by anonymous photographers documenting the antiwar struggle in Shinjuku, Tokyo, on October 21, 1968. Electric images shot in style of the Provoke photographers; one of the best and scarcest of the protest books. Near fine in wrappers. 14. (Japanese protest book). '69 11/13-17 Sato Hobei Soshi Toso / Fight to Stop Sato from Visiting America. [Tokyo]: Privately published [1969]. First Edition. Small octavo. A sequel of sorts to the Aperture referenced 10-21 towa nanika, published in a similar format, and documenting student protests in opposition to Prime Minister Sato's trip to the US to renegotiate the AMPO treaty. Highly charged nighttime images of violent street demonstrations rendered in the Provoke style, though the blurriness and heightened use of flash might have been the result of the environment rather than an artistic choice. The lack of scholarship on Japanese protest books combined with their relative scarcity makes it difficult to contextualize individual works within the larger body of Japanese photographic literature. By 1969, however, the Provoke movement had become the predominant force in Japanese photography, making it entirely feasible that the unattributed photographers of this book had a style in mind when they went out into the Tokyo streets to document the event. As usual with most protest books, no copies can be located in OCLC. Noticeable foxing to the front cover and first several pages; a very good copy in photo-illustrated stapled wrappers, and the first one we have seen or handled. 15. (Japanese protest book). Kono chijo ni wareware no kuni ha nai / Kogai kyampen shashinshu / No Country on the Earth for Us / Public Nuisances Campaign. Tokyo: Public Nuisances Campaign Executive Committee of All Japan Students Photo Association, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo. Japanese environmental protest book, one of the best of this limited subset within the protest genre. No individual photographers identified. Images of factories, pollution, toxic waste and sludge, bellowing smokestacks, Minamata disease, housing projects, etc. No copies in OCLC. Covers lightly worn and rubbed; very good plus in photo-illustrated wrappers. 16. (Japanese Protest Book). Yurusenaihi kara no Kiroku / Record from Unforgiving Day. Tokyo: Mugi Shobo, 1960. First Edition. Small quarto. Early Japanese protest book. The photographers are unidentified. With some of the well-known images of riots protesting the 1960 Security Treaty between Japan and the United States. No copies in OCLC. Very good in photo-illustrated wrappers. 17. (Japanese Protest Book). An Advance of Japanese Victory: The Struggle Against the U.S. - Japan Security Treaty. Tokyo: Publishing Section of the C.P. of Japan, N.d. (but c. 1960). First Edition. Small quarto. Like Hiroshi Hamaya's Record of Anger and Sadness, this book by unidentified photographers documents riots and protests resulting from the ratification of the 1960 Security Treaty between Japan and the United States. Some text in English, with one image of people beaten to death, followed by another image of a funeral. These publications mark the beginning of the protest genre in Japanese photographic literature. Little split a the spine; very good in orange photo-illustrated wrappers. The first copy I have seen. 18. KANAYAMA, Toshiaki. Dotou / Years of Violent Change. N.p.: N.p., 1970. First Edition. Quarto. Little-known Japanese protest book documenting various demonstrations between 1976-1970. Exceptional images. No copies in OCLC. (A book by this photographer published in 1984 appears in OCLC.) 19. KITAI, Kazuo. Sanrizuka 1969-1971. Tokyo: Nora-sha, 1971. First Edition. Quarto. SIGNED by the photographer. A documentation of the Sanrizuka farmers' opposition and resistance to the government's plan to build Narita airport. The most powerful example we have seen of an entire subset of little-known Japanese photobooks that deal with this struggle. Although not an official member of Provoke, Kitai was a pioneer in the photographic style championed by the group. His first book, Resistance, published in 1965, was greatly admired by the founders of Provoke, Daido Moriyama and Takuma Nakahira. Near fine in photo-illustrated wrappers and original publisher's card slipcase. A scarce book purportedly published in small numbers. No copy in OCLC. Possibly slated for inclusion in Parr / Badger 3, and a forthcoming Steidl publication on protest books. 20 KITAI, Kazuo. Teikoh. (Resistance). Tokyo: Murai-sha (1965). First Edition. Square
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