Taisho Ero-Guro & Photography

Taisho Ero-Guro & Photography, 1910s-1930s, is a Japanese context in the bakushi / kinbaku ecosystem.

1910s-1930s

Era: 1900s

Early modern Japanese mass culture context around Taisho / early Showa eroguro, newspaper illustration, theater criticism, staged torture tableaux and photography. This is the cultural field in which Seiu Ito transformed Edo punishment, kabuki and ukiyo-e references into explicitly modern kinbaku imagery.

People associated with Taisho Ero-Guro & Photography: Seiu Ito.