Osaka Modern

Japan’s “merchant capital” in the late sixteenth century, Osaka remained an industrial center into the 1930s, developing a distinct urban culture to rival Tokyo’s. Osaka Modern maps the city as imagined in Japanese popular literature and cinema—as well as contemporary radio, television, music, and comedy—from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Capitala comerciala a Japoniei la sfarsitul secolului al XVI-lea, Osaka a ramas un centru industrial in anii 1930, dezvoltand o cultura urbana distincta pentru a rivaliza cu Tokyo. Osaka Modern mapeaza orasul asa cum este imaginat in literatura si cinematografia populara japoneza, precum si in radioul, televiziunea, muzica si comedia contemporane din anii 1920 pana in anii 1950.