{"product_id":"chika-engeki-underground-theater-no-4-shuji-terayama-et-al-tokyo-1971-first-edition-with-slipcase-supplement-newspaper","title":"Chika Engeki \/ Underground Theater No. 4 — Shuji Terayama et al. Tokyo 1971. First Edition. With Slipcase \u0026 Supplement Newspaper.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e 地下演劇 第4号 (Chika Engeki \/ Underground Theater, No. 4)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Chika Engeki-sha (地下演劇社), Tokyo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYear Published:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1971 (Showa 46) — First Edition, June 1971\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKey Contributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Shuji Terayama (寺山修司) and others\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Softcover in slipcase, 21 × 15 × 2.5 cm. Unpaginated. All B\u0026amp;W text, photographs, and illustrations throughout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContents include:\u003c\/strong\u003e 「Homofiktus 20℃ Sengen」 \/ 「Shuto Homoludens Houan」 \/ 「Chijou no Densetsu Bungaku Juusanshou」 \/ 「Keitai Toshi」 \/ 「Soha-ro Kougun-ki」 \/ 「Gairo Opera」 \/ 「Shounen Shoujo Bungaku Zenshuu」 \/ 「Jinsei Shiron」 \/ 「Niku no Rippou」 \/ 「Akahada no Shuto — Daiisshou」, and more.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e Japanese\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInclusions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Slipcase (present, with staining to rear panel); supplement newspaper \u003cem\u003eCapital Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e, June 1971 (laid in, small tears.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[OVERVIEW]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJune 1971, Tokyo. The student movement has crested and broken. The barricades at Todai have been dismantled. And yet \u003cem\u003eChika Engeki\u003c\/em\u003e — Underground Theater — continues to publish, issue by issue, one of the most radical and visually ferocious little magazines in the history of Japanese counterculture. No. 4 is a sustained assault on the senses: a dense, unpaginated accumulation of manifestos, prose poems, theoretical texts, and full-bleed illustrations that refuses every convention of the literary magazine. The cover — a vivid painting of a subterranean bar packed with bodies in motion — gives way to interior spreads of hallucinatory power: a double-page diagram of the 「Keitai Toshi」 (Morphological City), its axes labeled with categories of law, desire, death, and revolution; a full-bleed spread of a demonic figure looming over scattered fetuses; photographs of street performances dissolving into text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShuji Terayama — poet, playwright, filmmaker, provocateur, and the presiding genius of Japanese underground culture in the 1960s and 70s — is the gravitational center of this issue. His presence connects \u003cem\u003eChika Engeki\u003c\/em\u003e to the broader international network of performance art, Situationist theory, and body politics that defined the radical imagination of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[IMPORTANT NOTE FOR INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: EASY AI TRANSLATION]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the text is printed in Japanese, you can easily read and study this historic book using modern smartphone AI tools. By taking a photo of any page with your smartphone and using free apps like Google Lens, ChatGPT, or Google Translate, the embedded AI will instantly scan and translate the text on your screen layout. Language is no longer a barrier to owning and enjoying this rare piece of cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[WHY THIS VOLUME IS A PRIZED COLLECTOR'S ITEM]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eShuji Terayama:\u003c\/strong\u003e Terayama (寺山修司, 1935–1983) is one of the most internationally recognized figures of the Japanese avant-garde — a poet, playwright, and filmmaker whose work with Tenjō Sajiki theatre company and his films \u003cem\u003eThrow Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePastoral: To Die in the Country\u003c\/em\u003e have secured his place in the canon of world experimental culture. Material associated with his work commands serious collector attention in Japan, Europe, and North America.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRarity:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eChika Engeki\u003c\/em\u003e was published in small print runs for a coterie audience and was never distributed through mainstream channels. Individual issues are difficult to find; copies in slipcase are exceptionally rare.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVisual \u0026amp; Artistic Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e The illustrations throughout — full-bleed, uncompromising, and executed with the graphic intensity of the best underground press of the period — make this a significant artifact of Japanese counterculture visual art, independently of its textual content.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[CONDITION]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery Good+ Vintage Condition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSlipcase:\u003c\/strong\u003e Present. Front and spine strong. Significant staining to rear panel — clearly visible in listing photographs. Does not affect the book.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCover:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very Good+. Clean, bright, no tears.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tight and fully intact.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterior:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very Good+. Clean throughout. No writing, no stamps, no cut sections. All pages complete.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSupplement (\u003cem\u003eCapital Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e newspaper):\u003c\/strong\u003e Present. Small tears consistent with 55-year-old newsprint. Fully legible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease carefully inspect all high-resolution listing photos to verify condition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"shady2grove","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65620586004829,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1082\/5888\/5981\/files\/IMG_6615.jpg?v=1787117763","url":"https:\/\/shady2grove.com\/products\/chika-engeki-underground-theater-no-4-shuji-terayama-et-al-tokyo-1971-first-edition-with-slipcase-supplement-newspaper","provider":"shady2grove","version":"1.0","type":"link"}