Plenty to Watch
by Mitsu & Taro Yashima
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Mena, Arkansas, United States
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About This Item
VG sturdy library edition, with orange boards.
The pages are full of Beautiful watercolor paintings by Taro himself.
Taro and his wife Mitsu, real names Jun Iwamatsu and Tomoe Sasako, were antifascist activists in addition to artists; they met in the Japanese Proletarian Artists' League. After being arrested and tortured by the Japanese government for their activism, they fled to America; they took on their pseudonyms when they were hired by the Office of War Information, and later the Office of Strategic Services, to protect their family still living in Japan. They produced anti-military propaganda for Japanese consumption in various forms throughout World War II, including illustrating handbills for dropping over battlefields. After the war, Taro and Mitsu wrote PLENTY TO WATCH and their other children's books to tell their American-born daughter Momo about life in Japan before the war. Based on Taro's childhood in a small village, this story brings to life all of the active workshops and craftspeople of early 20th century Japan.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Supercalifabulistic Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 283
- Title
- Plenty to Watch
- Author
- Mitsu & Taro Yashima
- Illustrator
- Yashima
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Date Published
- 1954
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Japan, watercolor, walk, Japanese Artist League, anti-military propaganda,World War ll, craftspeople of early 20th century Japan
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile Non-Fiction; Children;
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