Asakusa Jidai (The Age of Asakusa)

Ryo Oshida
Asakusa Jidai (The Age of Asakusa)

Photographs: Ryo Oshida

Publisher: Uchiyama Ryohei Jimusho

Pictures: 87

Year: 1978

Comments: Softcover in a cardboard slipcase, 23,5 x 22,0 cm, b&w photographs. First edition, 1978. Splicase in good condition other than discoloration and little wear. Inside in very good condition other than the paper being discolored, yellowed. Some pages are slightly marked at the top (see picture). Text in japanese.

Images of the Asakusa section of Tokyo; overtones of Katsumi Watanabe and Shigeo Gocho. Oshida studied with Daido Moriyama and was a member of Camp. Underrated book at the periphery of the Japanese canon. - See more at: https://www.harpersbooks.com/pages/books/22445/ryo-oshida/asakusa-jidai-the-age-of-asakusa#sthash.ayBxwe9t.dpuf