{"product_id":"natori-yonosuke-nippon-kobo-1931-45","title":"Yonosuke Natori and Nippon Kobo 1931–45: The Formative Years of Photojournalism and Graphic Design","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis exhibition catalog examines the activities of photographer and editor Yonosuke Natori and the production collective he led, \"Nippon Kobo,\" from 1931 to 1945. It was published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Fukushima Prefectural Museum in 2006, which subsequently toured to the Kawasaki City Museum, Ashikaga Museum of Art, and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNatori, who studied photojournalism and design in Germany, established Nippon Kobo in 1933 with Ihei Kimura, Hiroshi Hara, Nobuo Ina, and others. He introduced an editorial method that integrated photography, text, layout, and printing to Japan, producing publications such as the overseas photo magazine \"NIPPON.\" Personnel who would later lead post-war photography and design, such as Ken Domon, Takamitsu Kono, Yusaku Kamekura, Jitsuichi Koyanagi, and Shiachi Fujimoto, also emerged from his circle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book chronicles, in chronological order, \"NIPPON\" as its core, along with \"COMMERCE JAPAN,\" \"SHANGHAI,\" \"CANTON,\" \"MANCHOUKUO,\" and \"EASTERN ASIA,\" work with the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (Society for International Cultural Relations), and war record photo albums produced by Kokusai Hodo Kogei. It traces not only the development of photojournalism and graphic design but also the process by which Nippon Kobo's work became integrated into external cultural propaganda and military reporting activities, through publications, photographs, testimonies, and related materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt depicts the production environment where young photographers and designers collaborated, exploring new visual expressions. It shows how this free atmosphere was connected to state propaganda organizations as the wartime system intensified, eventually leading to dispersion and exhaustion. Also included are a secret story about the production of the folded book \"Nippon\" by Chikabo Kumada and an interview with Shiachi Fujimoto titled \"Around the time COMMERCE JAPAN was launched.\" This book is a highly valuable resource for understanding the complex relationship between pre-war Japanese photojournalism, editing, printing, and propaganda.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Title] Yonosuke Natori and Nippon Kobo 1931-45: The Youth of Photojournalism and Graphic Design\u003cbr\u003e[Publisher] Mainichi Shimbunsha\u003cbr\u003e[Publication Date] February 11, 2006\u003cbr\u003e[Pages] 176 pages\u003cbr\u003e[Size] Approx. 227 x 296 x 16mm \/ 886g\u003cbr\u003e[Format] Softcover\u003cbr\u003e[Language] Japanese\u003cbr\u003e[Title Reading] Natori Yonosuke to Nippon Kobo 1931-45 Hodo Shashin to Graphic Design no Seishun Jidai\u003cbr\u003e[Author\/Editor, etc.] Mari Hakusan (Japan Camera Museum) \/ Editor, Nobuo Hori \/ Editor, Koji Kakehashi \/ Design\u003cbr\u003e[Printing] Dainippon Printing \/ Printing\u003cbr\u003e[ISBN] -\u003cbr\u003e[Condition] Used [7] Very Good (minor corner wear)\u003cbr\u003e[Accessories] -\u003cbr\u003e[Featured In] -\u003cbr\u003e[Related Exhibition] \"Yonosuke Natori and Nippon Kobo 1931-45: The Youth of Photojournalism and Graphic Design\" Fukushima Prefectural Museum, etc. \/ 2006\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eYonosuke Natori (1910–1962)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Tokyo. Photographer, editor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile in Germany, he studied photography and design, working as a photojournalist by providing photographs to photo magazines. He became a contract photographer for the Ullstein Verlag publishing house in Berlin, covering various locations in Europe, Manchuria, and Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe returned to Japan in 1933 and established Nippon Kobo with Ihei Kimura, Hiroshi Hara, Nobuo Ina, and others. In 1934, he launched the overseas photo magazine \"NIPPON,\" significantly influencing Japanese photojournalism and graphic design through an editorial method that integrated photography, text, design, and printing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNippon Kobo was reorganized into Kokusai Hodo Kogei Co., Ltd. in 1939. During the war, in collaboration with the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, the Cabinet Information Bureau, and the Army, he produced publications and photographic materials for external propaganda. Natori himself traveled to China, engaging in publishing and cultural activities based in Shanghai.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the war, he launched the photo magazine \"Weekly Sun News,\" and from 1950, he was involved in editing \"Iwanami Shashin Bunko.\" He pursued methods of composing photographs as a visual language and fostered young photographers and editors such as Jun Miki, Shigeichi Nagano, and Sumi Sonobe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis major publications include \"GROSSES JAPAN\" (1937), \"Maijishan Caves\" (1957), \"Romanesque: The Origins of Western Beauty\" (1962), and \"Humans, Animals, Patterns: Romanesque Art and Its Surroundings\" (1963). In 2006, \"Yonosuke Natori Photo Collection: Germany 1936\" was published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u0026lt; Related Figures \u0026gt;\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIhei Kimura, Hiroshi Hara, Takamitsu Kono, Yusaku Kamekura, Ken Domon, Chikabo Kumada, Shiachi Fujimoto, Nippon Kobo\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"なとりようのすけ｜名取洋之助 \/ NATORI Yonosuke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44638514642986,"sku":null,"price":4400.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0649\/4280\/0938\/files\/E95E39FE-E882-4ABA-A9ED-E13081652E2B.jpg?v=1785454093","url":"https:\/\/bunbuku.tokyo\/en\/products\/natori-yonosuke-nippon-kobo-1931-45","provider":"文福","version":"1.0","type":"link"}