{"title":"Japan and the USSR","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"russian-exhibition-tokyo-1927","title":"[Russian Exhibition, 1927] ロシヤ展","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTokyo: Asahi Shimbun, 1927. Edited by Hoshino Tatsuo (星野辰男).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8vo. [2] pp., 6 colour plates, pp. 7–70 (ill.), 6 pp. text. Captions in Japanese and English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe catalogue of the first major exhibition of Russian art in Japan — and printed to a standard Soviet presses of the period could not match.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussian contemporary art first reached Japan in 1920, privately, through Burliuk and Pal’mov. Official exhibitions followed the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1925, but none of them produced a catalogue. The 1927 show — variously called \u003cem\u003eArt of New Russia\u003c\/em\u003e — travelled Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, drew on Bytie, AKhRR, Makovets, Zhar-Tsvet, OST and the Four Arts, and was catalogued only here, in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plates run from academic realism to the avant-garde: Petrov-Vodkin’s portrait of Anna Akhmatova, Kustodiev, Tyshler, Mashkov, Konchalovsky, Kuznetsov, Arkhipov, Yuon, Falk, Shterenberg, Lanceray, Altman, Udaltsova, Lebedev, Pakhomov, Favorsky, Kravchenko. There is a self-portrait by Aleksandr Drevin, later shot in the Great Purge, and work by Zinaida Serebriakova, who had left for Paris three years earlier. Two closing essays: Nikolay Punin on the Leningrad school, David Arkin on Moscow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal wrappers with a mounted colour reproduction after Abram Arkhipov; issued without a title page. 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Vol. 2: [2], 221, [3] pp., ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA prisoner of war’s memoir told as comics — nonfiction manga from inside the Siberian camps.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaitō Kunio (旗藤邦雄, 1920–2013) was working at Toho when he was conscripted. Interned in October 1945, he moved between four camps in Irkutsk Oblast and returned to Japan in July 1948; afterwards he joined the Tokyo Children’s Manga Association, wrote for children’s magazines, and ran television animation at Fuji Television Enterprises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese two volumes follow his own three years, from the collapse in Manchuria to repatriation — the salt factory, the road work, the arithmetic of cold. He had drawn Siberia before, but through a fictional soldier named Yomoyama. Here he says plainly that the story is his, and closes the second volume with an afterword written for this edition explaining why he chose comics to carry it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal paper boards and pictorial dust jackets, illustrated endpapers, belly bands present. Publisher’s 1991 catalogues and reader’s cards laid in. 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Errata sheet inserted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForty-six artists who drew the Gulag from inside it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn September 1945, despite the Potsdam Declaration, some 575,000 disarmed Japanese servicemen in Manchuria, northern Korea, Sakhalin and the Kuriles were sent to Soviet labour camps rather than home. Around 55,000 died there. For the unluckiest the return took eleven years, and the subject only reached a wide Japanese audience in the 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the prisoners were artists, professional and amateur, who were unexpectedly permitted to draw — occasionally commissioned by the camp authorities. This album accompanied a ten-day exhibition in Shinjuku in 1988, the first of its kind, and gathers Kazuki Yasuo, Satō Chūryō, Yokoyama Misao, Onosato Toshinobu and Kiuchi Nobuo among others, with their recollections, biographies and maps of the camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrisoners were generally not allowed to carry work home, but watercolours made in captivity by Murata Seizo, Furuta Takuzo and Satō Takeo are reproduced here, alongside photographs of a wooden Buddha carved at Yelabuga in 1947 and a violin built by one of the prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal dark blue cloth with silver staples to the front board, in the original pictorial slipcase illustrated with artwork by Kazuki Yasuo. Good: slipcase spine lightly bumped, light curling to the upper corner of the first leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eRarity\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOCLC locates five copies outside Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Siberian Internment Art Publication Committee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58770878759260,"sku":"SYR-003","price":750.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/0654\/7804\/files\/item03-1.jpg?v=1787505810"},{"product_id":"maruki-hiroshima-panels-moscow-1959","title":"[Maruki Iri \u0026 Maruki Toshi] Hiroshima \/ Хиросима","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1959. Preface by Mikhail Kotov.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOblong 8vo. 16, [27] pp., ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe catalogue of the first solo exhibition in the USSR by any contemporary Japanese artist.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaruki Toshi (丸木俊, 1912–2000) and Maruki Iri (丸木位里, 1901–1995) reached Hiroshima days after the bombing to help Iri’s surviving family, and two years later began the series of painted folding screens that became \u003cem\u003eThe Hiroshima Panels\u003c\/em\u003e. American occupation censorship made showing the work at home difficult; by the late 1950s it was travelling internationally, and in 1953 the World Peace Council awarded them the International Peace Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemporary Japanese art was almost unknown in the USSR — relations soured by 1930, Japanologists were repressed in the Purge, and cultural exchange stopped entirely during the war. In 1959 the Panels were hung in a pavilion in Gorky Park and then toured Soviet cities. The Marukis used their own connections afterwards to bring younger Japanese artists over and to enrich Soviet collections; after they left the Japanese Communist Party and visited the United States in 1970, their names were quietly restricted, mentioned only in connection with the Panels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal wrappers and pictorial dust jacket. Good: light wear and minor losses to the jacket spine. 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[32] pp., ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first Russian exhibition catalogue devoted to Japanese photography — and a provincial imprint at that.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJapanese woodcuts and painting had Soviet scholars behind them. Japanese photography had almost none. Across sixty-five years \u003cem\u003eSovetskoe Foto\u003c\/em\u003e carried fewer than forty scattered items on the subject, and exactly one article devoted to it — a translation, \u003cem\u003eThe First Photographers in Japan\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExhibitions were no better. In 1929 \u003cem\u003eAsahi\u003c\/em\u003e sent photographs to the USSR that were never hung. Only two Soviet exhibitions dealt with Japanese photography alone: Tokyo 1958, and this one — and only this one produced a catalogue. Twenty photographers from the Tokyo club Arc-en-Ciel, led by Nakai Masami (中居正躺) of the Royal Photographic Society, are each given one reproduction; a closing list records all 134 works shown, among them posterisations, solarisations and montages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal pictorial wrappers, issued without a title. 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[118] pp., ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYayoi Kusama’s first appearance in the USSR.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue of the third international satire exhibition, held in Moscow in 1977 in support of the antiwar movement and against the arms race, with work from the USSR, Mongolia, Cuba, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, France, the USA, Germany, Denmark, Mexico, Colombia, Portugal and Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the contributors is Ollie Harrington (1912–1995), whom Langston Hughes called America’s greatest African-American cartoonist. And among them is Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929), showing the watercolour \u003cem\u003eTidal Waves of War\u003c\/em\u003e, painted in 1977 after her return from New York, during the years of hostile Japanese press and hospitalisation. 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