Showa 1926-1939 A History of Japan

Name: Showa 1926-1939 A History of Japan
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ISBN: 9781770461352

ISBN-10: 1770461353

ISBN-13: 9781770461352

Edition: 2013

Authors: Shigeru Mizuki, Zack Davisson

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Showa 1926 - 1939: A History of Japan is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth-century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of high unemployment and other economic hardships caused by the Great Depression. Mizuki's photo-realist style effortlessly brings to life the Japan of the 1920s and 1930s, depicting bustling city streets and abandoned graveyards with equal ease. When the Showa era began, Mizuki himself was just a few years old, so his earliest memories coincide with the earliest events of the time. With his trusty narrator Rat Man, Mizuki brings history into the realm of the personal,…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Publications
Publication date: 11/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.58" wide x 8.64" long x 1.94" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Born March 8, 1922, in Sakaiminato, Tottori, SHIGERU MIZUKI is a specialist in stories of yokai and is considered a master of the genre. He is a member of The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, and has traveled to more than sixty countries to engage in fieldwork of yokai and spirits of different cultures.