Signed by the first Japanese-American photo-journalist
Heading: (Japanese-American)
Author: Fujita, Jun
Title: Tanka, Poems in Exile
Place Published: Chicago
Publisher:Covici-McGee, private press printing
Date Published: 1923
Description:
61 pp. Original boards and cloth spine. First Edition.
Rare signed copy of the only published book by the first Japanese-American photo journalist.
Photographer, journalist, silent film actor, poet - Fujita was born in Japan, immigrated to the US at 21, and while studying to become an engineer, worked his way through college as a Chicago newspaper photographer; his journalistic coups included exclusive photos of the infamous 1929 Chicago Mafia "Valentine's Day murders." Fujita's forgotten work as a photojournalist has recently been honored by an exhibition at the Newberry Library.
He was also an accomplished poet - the first American to write "tanka" verse, a poetic style originating in classical Japanese literature. This book is his collection of "tanka", published even as he was photographing racist outrages against African-Americana in the Chicago area. He later married a white woman journalist, though they were not permitted to marry legally for some time because of the laws against racial "miscegenation."
Condition Report: Spine cloth spotted and worn; very good.
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Heading: (Japanese-American)
Author: Fujita, Jun
Title: Tanka, Poems in Exile
Place Published: Chicago
Publisher:Covici-McGee, private press printing
Date Published: 1923
Description:
61 pp. Original boards and cloth spine. First Edition.
Rare signed copy of the only published book by the first Japanese-American photo journalist.
Photographer, journalist, silent film actor, poet - Fujita was born in Japan, immigrated to the US at 21, and while studying to become an engineer, worked his way through college as a Chicago newspaper photographer; his journalistic coups included exclusive photos of the infamous 1929 Chicago Mafia "Valentine's Day murders." Fujita's forgotten work as a photojournalist has recently been honored by an exhibition at the Newberry Library.
He was also an accomplished poet - the first American to write "tanka" verse, a poetic style originating in classical Japanese literature. This book is his collection of "tanka", published even as he was photographing racist outrages against African-Americana in the Chicago area. He later married a white woman journalist, though they were not permitted to marry legally for some time because of the laws against racial "miscegenation."
Condition Report: Spine cloth spotted and worn; very good.
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