Young Samurai Bodybuilders of Japan

E-295: John Wetherhill,. Very Good. 1966. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by John Wetherhill, Inc. , Tokyo, Japan. 1966. X, 75 pgs. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed and inscribed by Yukio Mishima on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chip present to the crown of the spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 140 photographic studies of over 50 of Japan's most perfectly developed young men - Young men who in their single-minded devotion to a rigorous training regimen might even be called Japan's new breed of samurai. To quote from the accompanying essays, these studies do indeed "raise physique photography to the level of photographic art" and, for the first time, show the Japanese male physique "in all its strength and beauty of symmetry, in all its splendor and melancholy and, yes, its poetry"; they are studies which, like the explosive appearance of Toshiro MIfune upon the cinema screens of the world, will lead to a drastic revision of the popular view of the Japanese male as a "drooping, speckled figure of a small man with a frail body wrapped in Western dress. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 75 pages; Signed by Author .