Yumenji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan

Takehisa Yumeji, a popular Japanese artist and entrepreneur, was a significant figure in Japan's early twentieth-century cultural landscape. His graphic works, including antiwar illustrations in socialist bulletins, depictions of Tokyo post-Great Kantō Earthquake, and fashionable images of beautiful women, became popular among young female consumers. Yumeji played a key role in the reinvention of the woodblock medium and became a recognizable brand. In the first full-length English-language study of Yumeji's work, Nozomi Naoi examines his role in shaping modern Japanese identity.