Iki: The Japanese Iki

E-073: Nihon No Kokoro. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. Folio. Nihon No Kokoro. 1981. 133 pgs. Illustrated with mostly color plates with a small amount of black and white photos. First Edition/First Printing. Text in Japanese. Slipcased in a illustrated paper covered slipcase. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn. Masaya Nakamura (Nakamura Masaya, 1926–2001) was a Japanese photographer particularly known for nude photography. Nakamura was born in Yokohama on 29 March 1926. After graduating in 1948 from the precursor of Chiba University, he moved through a series of employers photographing actors and doing still photography for films. He went freelance in 1951 and in 1954 joined with Yuji Hayata in setting up Hayata's studio. He was also doing work for the magazine Chuo Koron. From the mid-1950s Nakamura increasingly concentrated on nudes. (One appeared in the 30th anniversary issue of Life in 1966.) In 1958 he set up his own company, Masaya Studio. E-73; Vol. 6; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 133 pages .