Author: Exhibition - Toyama 1936.
Title: [Toyamashi Shusai Nichiman Sangyo Daihakurankai Kyosankai Shi].
Description: Toyama 1938 (Showa 13). 23x16cm publisher's cloth and card box; numerous photo illustrations, colour plates, folding plans and elevations. A nice copy. ¶ The official report on the 1936 Japan-Manchuria Great Industrial Exhibition. Though blemished by too many portraits of personages, this is still an excellent record of thirties Japanese expo architecture and design with coloured pictures of posters, advertising, tickets and so on, plans and elevations of buildings, lighting, and photo views. There is also the obligatory Hatsusaburo colour folding birds-eye panorama.Worldcat finds two copies outside Japan, both in California.

Keywords: exhibitions architecture design international expositions Japan Asia c20th modernism progress Manchuria Manchukuo