Young Samurai: Bodybuilders of Japan

Tamotsu Yato, Yukio Mishima

New York

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Grove Press

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1967

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First US Edition.

26.5cm x 19cm. xii, 76 pages, black and white illustrations. Cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.

Japanese physique photography by one of Japan’s most noted photographers of homoerotic imagery. With an introduction by Yukio Mishima in which he describes this as “the first collection of photographs of Japanese bodybuilders ever published.”, and with an essay by Hitoshi Tamari, Managing Director of the Japan Bodybuilding Association. Also published in Japanese, this is the US edition in English.

Near Fine Condition in Fair Jacket. Ink number to top right corner of front free endpaper, book else fine. Jacket stained, though only visible on lower flap and verso, and with small chips and tears to edges with some tape repairs to verso. Near Fine Condition.