Tanako Kawabata (川端多奈子)
Tanako Kawabata (川端多奈子) is a Japanese model.
Era: 1950s
MODEL · WRITER
Early postwar Japanese Kitan Club model and contributor. Nawapedia identifies Tanako Kawabata / 川端多奈子 as a Matsuyama-born model appearing in Kitan Club from 1952, with selected 1953 Utsukushiki Imashime credits. Nawapedia's Utsukushiki Imashime page lists her as the sole model for No.1 and among the No.2 models; Kinbaku Today frames her as an early model and voice of postwar kinbaku culture through Kitan Club correspondence, essays and model work. Her Kitan Club and Utsukushiki Imashime role is structurally useful; no kinbakushi, teacher or lineage claim is asserted.
Reference links
Sources
- Nawapedia: Tanako Kawabata catalogue record
- Nawapedia: Utsukushiki Imashime catalogue record
- Kinbaku Today: The Story of Kawabata Tanako catalogue record
- Kinbaku Today: From a Torn Journal by Kawabata Tanako catalogue record
- Suruga-ya: Kitan Club January 1954 catalogue record
- Nawapedia: Takashi Tsujimura catalogue record
- Nawapedia: Kitan Club catalogue record
Collaborators: Takashi Tsujimura.
Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Kitan Club.