[PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS]
- Author: Shuji Terayama (寺山修司)
- Title: Jidai no Shashu (時代の射手) — "The Marksman of the Age"
- Publisher: Haga Shoten (芳賀書店)
- Year Published: 1967 First ed 1st print
- Language: Japanese
- Format: Hardcover, 316 pages, 19.5 × 13.5 cm
- Photography: Daido Moriyama (森山大道)
- Book Design: Ikko Tanaka (田中一光)
- Inclusions: None (no obi or slipcase)
[OVERVIEW]
Jidai no Shashu — "The Marksman of the Age" — stands as one of the most electrifying documents of Japan's cultural insurrection of the 1960s. Written by Shuji Terayama, the enfant terrible of Japanese avant-garde theatre, poetry, and film, this volume is a manifesto disguised as prose: a sustained assault on postwar conformity, bourgeois domesticity, and the suffocating weight of tradition.
The book's visual identity is inseparable from its content. Daido Moriyama — then at the very threshold of his legendary career — contributed raw, grain-saturated monochrome photographs to this volume, while Ikko Tanaka, one of Japan's supreme graphic designers, conceived the stark, hypnotic cover that has made this book instantly recognizable to collectors worldwide. The collision of these three titans of Japanese modernism in a single object is, by any measure, a singular event in postwar publishing history.
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[CONDITION]
Good Vintage Condition — Honest Survivor
- Covers & Spine: The bold black-and-white boards retain their graphic impact with the natural patina of nearly 60 years. Signs of wear from age are visible on the upper back.Slight damage to the corner of the cover. Signs of tape repair on the back.
- Binding: Tight, secure, and fully intact.
- Interior & Pages: Pages present cleanly throughout.Light soiling to the page edges (fore-edge). No tears, no underlining, no further markings.
- *Please carefully inspect all high-resolution listing photos to verify the exceptional vintage condition.*
