February 1st, 2018 -- by Bacchus
Angel On A Chain
Because I am utterly innocent of the Japanese language and alphabet, I can’t provide any context for this smug-looking bastard in a silk top-hat leading a pretty female angel bare-footed down a busy street past dismayed (?) onlookers. All I can tell you is that it comes from this page of the January, 1960 issue of the legendary Japanese fetish magazine Kitan Club. The art itself might or might not be Japanese (although I think it is); that magazine was known to reproduce fetish material from all over the world and from every era.
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The context is unhelpful. This illustration appears on a frontispiece – a title page. Before it are colophons, an index and a pictorial (but I’m not good enough at parsing Japanese to locate artist credits, if any). After this title page, fiction starts (it seems to be a mix of short stories and serialized novellas; none of the authors’ names look foreign).
Thanks, Rafu — I appreciate even that much context!
I don’t know about Japan specifically, but the state of magazine publication generally in 1960 involved an awful lot of uncredited illustration. I don’t expect Japan to have been different.