The Culture of ANIMA : Supernature in Japanese Life
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Gott skick. Mazda Motor Corporation, Japan 1985 (©). English translation by Lynne E. Riggs & Takechi Manabu. 134 (1) pages in publishers 'danish softcover' volume with illustrated, coated covers and illustrated endpapers. The book is richly illustrated with plenty of full page color illustrations. Measure (base x height): 18.5 x 26 cm. --- Light creasing around the low corner throughout the book, but hardly noticable on alot of the pages because of the colorful illustrations. The covers show traces of handling and there is a 1 cm. tear along the back outer hinge, from the spine foot and up. Despite a few flaws, the book is overall in good shape. --- An Amazon customer review: "To a non-Japanese fan of manga or anima, this book offers a cultural perspective on the roots of anima in Japanese society. It was written in 1985, after the first generation of anima, like Astro Boy and Space Ace and Gigantor. But it deliberately does not offer images or much discuss those cartoons. Instead the images in the text and the accompanying descriptions are all photos of items like traditional buildings, wells, clothing and manuscripts. Essentially, all the photos are of old items, rooted in preindustrial Japanese society. This harking back to what is perhaps an imagined or idealised past forms the basis of much current perceptions of anima in current society."
