Asahigraph

Japanese pictorial magazine (1923–2000)

Asahigraph September 1937: Japanese troops in North China

March 1951: Michiyo Kogure

Asahigraph (アサヒグラフ, Asahigurafu), also known as the Asahi Picture News, was a Japanese weekly pictorial magazine that ran from 1923 until 2000.

Asahigraph started on 25 January 1923 ^[1] as a daily feature from Asahi Shinbunsha (publisher of Asahi Shimbun and soon also of Asahi Camera); this ran until 1 September 1923 when it was stopped by the major earthquake in Tokyo. It was back as a weekly from 14 November. In 1926 it was joined by Asahi Graphic (朝日グラフィック) which the Osaka branch of Asahi Shinbunsha had been publishing since 2 January 1921.

Asahigraph survived World War II and reemerged as something of a Japanese equivalent of the U.S. magazine Life. (Mainichi Graph, from Asahi's rival Mainichi Shinbunsha, was similar.) The last regular issue of the magazine is dated 13 October 2000.

References

• Shirayama Mari. "Major Photography Magazines". In The History of Japanese Photography, ed. Ann Wilkes Tucker, et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09925-8. pp. 378–85. pp. 379–80.
• Shirayama Mari (白山眞理). Nihon no shashin/kamera zasshi (日本の写真・カメラ雑誌). Nihon shashin-shi gaisetsu (日本写真史概説, "An outline history of photography in Japan"). Tokyo: Iwanami, 1999. ISBN 4-00-008381-3. pp. 38–9.

This article incorporates material derived from the "Asahi Graph" article on the camerapedia wiki at Fandom (formerly Wikia) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License (June 2018).

External links

• Media related to Asahi Graph at Wikimedia Commons

1. "Picture Daily in Tokyo", Editor & Publisher magazine, February 24, 1923, p.23