Google翻訳
"Elegant Photo Senryu Collection" (Shinryusha, 1961) by a Japanese author. While this volume combines photography and senryu, the photographs focus on female models, making it a small publication embodying the Showa era's "elegant style," a time when gravure culture and light literature intersected. While it includes nude and semi-nude images, it is not overtly provocative; rather, it emphasizes the "beauty of appearance"—the captivating gestures, curves of the body, and the lingering effects of makeup and clothing. While continuing the lineage of erotic culture that has continued since the early Showa period, it exudes a quiet sensuality that avoids vulgar impressions. The accompanying senryu poems sometimes soften the world of the photographs with their lightness, or conversely, subtly subtly incorporate them, allowing the visual and literary elements to complement each other, subtly evoking the humor and emotion unique to the popular culture of the time. Rather than simply consuming female images, the book depicts them in a refined way, incorporating seasonal elements, gestures, and timing in a way that is reminiscent of traditional Japanese aesthetics. This allows nude images and senryu poems to coexist in a refined way, making it a book that exemplifies the flexibility and playfulness that photography literature possesses. A rare fragment of culture that could only have been born from a small publishing house in the 1950s, it still exudes a unique appeal.
＜Condition＞ Good.
