[KAISEISHA. HENSANBU]. 偕行社編纂部.

満洲事変絵画集. [Manshū Jihen kaigashū].

Tokyo. 財団法人偕行社編纂部. [Zaidan Hōjin Kaiseisha. Hensanbu]. Showa 10 [ 1935]. Stock ID #176223

Full page map with locations highlighted in red, endpaper maps,44 pages of high quality colour images of paintings each one to a page printed single sided. Embossed leather-look binding, 31.4 x 24cm.

A lavishly produced volume of artworks depicting the "Manchurian Incident" of 1931 from the Japanese perspective, with accompanying texts. The works are by a variety of painters including soldier-artists Imamura Kikichi (1887-1941), who also designed popular postcards of events on the Manchurian front, and Muto Yashu (1892-1974). The book includes a fronticepiece with a detailed map showing the site of key conflicts.

The first artwork, by Muto Yashu, depicts Japanese forces supposedly preventing a plot to plant a bomb on the Manchurian railway (the event, since discounted by historians, which was the alleged start of the takeover of Manchuria). This is followed by a series of vivid respresentations of battles between Japanese and Chinese forces, including cavalry charges, aerial attacks, tank and trench warfare. The latter sections of the book, in contrast, show peaceful scenes of the Manchurian landscape, including pictures of the Yalu River and Harbin, and of rural prosperity and Mongolian yurts on the steppe.

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Price: $375.00 AU

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