Vintage prewar Japanese illustrated photo magazine - The International Graphic, 1930, original inserts

This prewar Japanese issue of The International Graphic is a large-format illustrated photo magazine, important as a visual document of Japan in the first half of the 20th century.

Magazines of this type help place Japanese art within the broader visual environment of its time. Photography, printed design, advertising, architecture, theatre, fashion, travel, international events and everyday culture appear alongside artistic imagery, forming a wider picture of the visual language of prewar Japan.

Publication details:

Title: The International Graphic
Date: April 1930
Period: Showa period, prewar Japan
Format: Japanese graph magazine / illustrated photographic magazine
Publisher: Kokusai Johosha, Tokyo
Issue: Vol. IX, April, No. 4
Cover: the five-storied pagoda of Toshogu Shrine in Ueno Park during cherry blossom season

The International Graphic was one of the notable Japanese graph magazines of the prewar period. Its value is not only in individual photographs or illustrations, but in the structure of the magazine itself: it shows how art, history, urban modernity, print culture and visual journalism were connected in Japan before 1945.

This issue includes original inserts. They are an important part of the object’s value, making the magazine not only a periodical, but also a self-contained example of prewar Japanese visual culture.

Condition

Vintage condition. Natural age-related wear is present, including paper toning, signs of time to the cover and edges, small edge losses, binding holes, creases and general handling wear consistent with an authentic old Japanese magazine. Please review the photos carefully.

Size

Size approx.: 26 x 38 cm.

Shipping

Safe and tracked shipping from Latvia. Protective packaging.

For US buyers

This item enters the United States duty-free.