#Showa photography
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the-cricket-chirps · 1 year ago
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Hirai Teruschichi
Fantasies of the Moon
1938
© Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, image: Tokyo Digital Museum
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quazies · 4 months ago
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This town ain’t big enough for the two of us…
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Or the three of us..?
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aldi80s · 7 months ago
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Electronic stores at Akihabara.
Tokyo, Japan, 1983.
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the-colors-of-tokyo · 3 months ago
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ボロボロ
Small Town Tokyo: Somewhere in Meguro
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389 · 2 years ago
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Fog Environment #47660 Children’s Park Showa Kinen Park, Tachikawa Tokyo Japan, 1992
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dochuff · 8 days ago
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Forever Closed
Small Town Tokyo: Fukuzawa
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steelajeeg · 2 months ago
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Astro Boy Student
- from Astro Boy Diverse Life
- by Pop Mart
What a stunning little figure. This Astro Boy toy from Pop Mart wasn't commercially released in my country (due to licensing agreements) so I was very lucky to find a few blind boxes locally.
I love the variations in textures and paint finish, it really evokes the fabric on metal look - and the big glossy boots. And great gesture sculpting.
It's a beautifully unique toy of a classic pop culture icon.
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giapponetvb · 2 months ago
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Metallica. Harajuku 1986.
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vraisetzen · 4 months ago
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a couple from the taishō period (date unknown)
the selfie photo has been posted frequently on nostalgia servers, but i recently found the web archive with all the other images. user @/shomotsubugyo is attempting to learn more about the couple on twitter — you can find the thread here.
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crazyfox-archives · 1 year ago
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A view along Third Avenue in Nara in 1969
Photo by Nagaoka Jirō (長岡二朗)
Image from the photography collection of Nara Prefectural Library
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ikana-graveyard · 4 months ago
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Unknown group | mid century Japan
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Yamaguchi Momoe, 70s showa idol.
One thing i love about that generation is their "bookmark" format photos. As you can see all of these photos are longer than wider, and they hav some sort of text below. I like to call it the "bromide" format, like a poster basically. This could be easily printed out, laminated and then sold as bookmarks, especially in Korea. It was basocally the photocard of the 80s.
In Korea, American actresses Brooke Shields, Sophie Marceau, Phoebe Cates, Taiwanese actress Joey Wong (also known in Korea as Wang Jo-hyun), and other stars such as Isabel Azani were popular "bookmark goddesses". While on the international side, they were held to a more mature beauty standard, the Korean "bookmark goddesses" were picked based on how innocent and youthful their looks were.
The most famous ones are singer Lee Ji Yeon, actresses Lee SangAh, Ha Heera, Kim Hye Soo, Lee Mi Yeon, Choi Soo Ji, Chae Shi Ra, Choi Jin Shil and a lot more.
Maybe I'll post a few bookmarks on here later!
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aldi80s · 8 months ago
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JAPAN ❤️
Akihabara [1971]
Credits to the owner
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the-colors-of-tokyo · 6 months ago
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Autumn Persimmons
In the garden of the elderly lady who lived next door before she died, her house and big, beautiful garden was torn down and plowed under, and a new 8 floor concrete "mansion" (apartment) building replaced it. She used to put a box out front and give many away to anyone who wanted them.
Small Town Tokyo: Kakinokizaka (Persimmon Tree Hill), Himonya.
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japanhopper · 3 months ago
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Rainy season humidity, neon lights clash with last light, before mimicking the day, laughing away suppressed mirth, of an ailing Mother Earth
Photos & poem copyright 2024 David 2e
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dochuff · 1 year ago
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The old soba "diner" at Ookayama. Now being torn down or perhaps rebuilt. Local folks gonna miss it at lunchtime.
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