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, 235 x 220 mm. Slipcase missing. First edition, 1978. Black & white photographs. Text in japanese. Exterior of the pages a little faded. Fresh and clean copy. Reproductions very well preserved. Scarce and collectible japanese photobook.

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