Identify this Japanese magazine
February 16, 2009 4:50 PM Subscribe
What Japanese art magazine is this?
I recently picked up some issues of a Japanese art magazine from the late 1970s. Each issue seems to feature the work of one (mostly) 20th-century painter over (most of) a lifetime. Other than the dates, everything is in a mix of katakana/kanji. I don't read either, and my attempts to transliterate the katakana and google it have failed.
Here's a picture of one of the covers. The characters in the top left seem to be the name of the magazine and I'm guessing what's below that identifies the artist.
I recently picked up some issues of a Japanese art magazine from the late 1970s. Each issue seems to feature the work of one (mostly) 20th-century painter over (most of) a lifetime. Other than the dates, everything is in a mix of katakana/kanji. I don't read either, and my attempts to transliterate the katakana and google it have failed.
Here's a picture of one of the covers. The characters in the top left seem to be the name of the magazine and I'm guessing what's below that identifies the artist.
Best answer: Yep. Asahi Graph. Asahi gurafu in katakana.
posted by Rinku at 6:05 PM on February 16, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Rinku at 6:05 PM on February 16, 2009 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Thanks! I was off on a few characters, which left me without a chance of finding it. Does anyone know if collections of paintings was a typical thing for this magazine to be publishing? It sounds like a photography mag.
posted by pengale at 6:15 PM on February 16, 2009
posted by pengale at 6:15 PM on February 16, 2009
Best answer: In the post-war decades, アサヒ グラフ was the Japanese 'equivalent' of Life magazine in the US, a weekly mix of photo-journalism, feature stories, and early celeb stuff. What you have shown us is a 'special supplementary edition', one of what I suppose must have been a series on artists of the day.
The guy from whom I bought my house here in Tokyo was a magazine illustrator, and kept a gigantic stack of these on file for reference. He left them behind when he bailed out, and I'm now stuck with them - hundreds and hundreds, tied in bundles. Too interesting to throw away, but useless, actually ...
posted by woodblock100 at 6:46 PM on February 16, 2009
The guy from whom I bought my house here in Tokyo was a magazine illustrator, and kept a gigantic stack of these on file for reference. He left them behind when he bailed out, and I'm now stuck with them - hundreds and hundreds, tied in bundles. Too interesting to throw away, but useless, actually ...
posted by woodblock100 at 6:46 PM on February 16, 2009
oh woodblock, maybe you could scan them, post them online, and then maybe you could bear removing them? i'm sure other people like me would love to see them... :)
posted by sardonicsmile at 5:56 PM on February 17, 2009
posted by sardonicsmile at 5:56 PM on February 17, 2009
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http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Graph
posted by sardonicsmile at 4:54 PM on February 16, 2009 [1 favorite]