Author: Kanai Naozo.
Title: [Undokai].
Description: Tokyo, Kanai Naozo 1929 (Showa 4). 19x27cm colour illustrated wrapper; 12pp including covers, colour illustration on every page. A nice copy. ¶ Sports day; No. 117 in this particular series of picture books by Kanai. There seem to be several indistinguishable series or Kanai picked the numbers out of a hat. These are children who are putting all their effort into being decorative. I'd say the whole day passed in near silence, maybe the occasional gentle puff at the end of an extended pose. The books from the twenties and beginning of the thirties, though, are a lot less revolting than those of later years.

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