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Database of Visual Images in Modern Japanese Popular Magazines from the Kasho Museum Collection
Description
Database of metadata and images such as the front and back covers, tables of contents, and frontispieces of modern Japanese popular magazines archived in the Kasho Museum. The images accessible on the database are only those for which the copyright has expired and those for which the copyright owner has given permission for use.
● Resources covered in the database: Popular magazines from the Kasho Museum collection (37 titles and 405 issues)
・Girls’ magazines: Shōjo gahō (Girls’ Illustrated), Shōjo no tomo (Girls’ Friend), Reijo kai (Girls’ World), etc.
・Boys’ magazines: Shōnen kurabu (Boys’ Club), Nihon shōnen (Japanese Boys), etc.
・Women’s magazines: Fujin sekai (World of Women), Fujokai (Women’s World), Josei (Women), Shufu no tomo (Housewife’s Friend), etc.
・Entertainment- and culture-themed magazines: Kōdan kurabu (Storytelling Club), Omoshiro kurabu (Fun Club), Gendai (Modern Times), Tokyo, etc.
● Developers
Nichibunken’s NIHU Transdisciplinary Project “Historical and International Research into Popular Culture to Pursue New Images of Japan,” the Society for Taisho Imagery Studies, and the Kasho Museum.
● Takabatake Kashō
After studying traditional Japanese painting at what is today the Kyoto City University of Arts, Takabatake Kashō gained attention for an advertising illustration he made in 1911 for a women’s herbal medicine called Chūjōtō, a product of the pharmaceutical company Tsumura Juntendō. He then went on to provide illustrations and cover art for such popular magazines as Kōdan kurabu (Storytelling Club), Shōnen kurabu (Boys’ Club), Shōjo gahō (Girls’ Illustrated), and Fujin sekai (World of Women) between the Taishō to early Shōwa eras. Referred to as the Kashō-gonomi style, his lyrical illustrations (jojō-ga) of handsome boys and pretty girls enjoyed great popularity.
● The Kasho Museum
A privately-owned museum in the city of Tōon in the northern part of Ehime prefecture, the Kasho Museum opened in 1990 centering its collection around works and resources of Takabatake Kashо̄ at his parents’ home in the prefecture’s southern city of Uwajima, the artist’s hometown. The museum continues to be operated today by relatives of the Takabatake family. Among the roughly 10,000 items in the museum collection are Kashо̄’s works and relevant resources, as well as popular culture-related materials from the Taishō era (1912–1926). The museum hosts three to four exhibitions per year and serves as the administrative office of the Society for Taisho Imagery Studies.
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