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Tokyo Shisei Zuhyo / Graphic Illustration of Tokyo City.
Author: OHASHI, Mitsuyoshi
Publication place: Tokyo
Publisher: Kyoto Insatsuhiki Kaisha
Publication date: 1935.
Physical description: Folio. 44 pages of colour-printed maps, charts, graphs, and vignettes, accompanied by Japanese text panels; original publisher’s blue cloth, gilt and blind, buff stiff card slipcase with printed paper label on the front cover.
Notes
A beautiful example of the use of the isotype technique in depicting quantitative information through coloured symbols, illustrations or pictograms. The isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) was developed in Vienna between 1925 and 1934, particularly by Otto Neurath (1882–1945), and was soon being used in Japan to great effect.
In Ohashi’s book, Tokyo is depicted multiple times in differing formats, each of which clearly shows geography, topography, infrastructure, demographics, urban growth, population, industrialization, communications, and wealth, amongst others.
Rare: only one institutional example located, at Columbia.
Dimensions
443 by 307mm. (17.5 by 12 inches)Stock number
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