A complete run in 4 issues (each approximately 200 pp.), profusely illustrated throughout. Small quarto (8 7/8 x 7 inches). Original illustrated wrappers. Light bumping and edgewear, including some mild wear to spines, some mild scattered toning, interiors mostly clean, overall very good. Tokyo: Tensei Shuppan, 1968-1969.

A complete run in four issues of the short-lived underground Japanese-language periodical, with some French translations, devoted to stretching the boundaries of human sexuality and gender identity and exploring sexual customs, mores, and deviance cross-culturally. The issues include analysis of Shunga and other Ukiyo-e prints, the Marquis de Sade, bondage, Indian temple sculptures, and other topics.

A provocative work, emblematic of the late 1960's, this journal was published under the editorial direction of Shibusawa Tasuhiko (1928-1987), a renowned novelist, essayist, surrealist, and translator of French literature including the Marquis de Sade, who wrote extensively on black magic, demonism and eroticism. It features contributions by noted Japanese photographers and filmmakers such as Eikoh Hosoe, Ikko Narahara, Kishin Shinoyama, Yoshihiro Tatsuki, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Shomei Tomatsu, and others. Japanese writer and model Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was featured as a model in the photo series "Masculine Deaths", and was a member of a failed coup d'etat in November 1970 which ended in his seppuku.

Scarce institutionally.

Book ID: 53666

Price: $3,250.00