Bright Young Moga

モダンガール。 〔和modern＋girl〕。モガ。Moga。Icon of 1920's Japan Fashionable, Free-Spirited, Fascinated by everything new。 新しがり屋の女性

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Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (1899 - 1948)

Dancer, or “Curved Line of the Instant” (Dansā, or Setsuna no kyokusen), 1932, ink and color on paper

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I just love the movement and detail in this one! ^-^

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千年女優 - Millenium Actress (2001)

Japanese anime film by director Satoshi Kon and animated by the Studio Madhouse. It tells the story of a documentary filmmaker investigating the life of an elderly actress in which reality and cinema become blurred. It is based on the life of Setsuko Hara  and Hideko Takamine, both pictured at the bottom and both stars of the silverscreen of Japanese cinema in the 1930s onwards

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I love this movie!

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Illustration of a modern girl, not sure of date on this one or artist

Found here

Addendum by the kind taishou-kun:

“Advertising flyer of Mitsukoshi department store, Ginza, 銀座三越 - Tokyo, Japan - 1930s”

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Revising some of my favourites this week ^-^

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Takashima Aiko 高島愛子

An actress, model and moga. Born 1904 and died, in a firebombing raid on Tokyo, in 1945. She played Teruko in one of Mizoguchi Kenji’s silent films of 1925, Out of College 学窓を出でて.

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She’s still one of my favourites

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Modern Girls Around The World! Silverscreen sirens from the early days of silent films onwards.These are some of the women who helped popularise the flapper/modern girl image and were icons for young women of the day.

L: Kurishima Sumiko, Japan (1902-1987) R:Sulochana (nee Ruby Myers), India (1907-1983)

L: Lil Dagover, German (1887-1980) R: Greta Garbo, Sweden (1905-1990)

Jessie Matthews, England (1907-1981)

Louise Brooks, USA (1906-1985)

Polaire, France (1874-1939)

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Revisiting some of my favourites this week :)

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Recent photo of Obanazawa, Yamagata but it hasn’t changed much at all since the 1920s!

Found here

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Taisho Romance ~ Kimono

Illustration found here but no original source/artist given

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2005 edition Licca-chan ‘Ginza’ model - a modern day representation of our 1920s Modern Girl

Pics found here

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Poster for Mitsukoshi department store

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Modern (2009) illustration of a modern girl

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夏川静江 Shizue Natsukawa (1909-1999) Japanese actress

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中原淳一 Nakahara Junichi (1913-1988)

Famous illustrator and fashion designer, Nakahara Junichi’s art is credited with being the forerunner to the early manga styles and he is still widely appreciated today.

Images found here

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入江たか子 Irie Takako (1911-1995) and、夏川静江さん Shizue Natsukawa (1909-1999)

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A selection of vintage match box advertisment designs from 1920s-40s

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1911 Art Nouveau style poster.

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“He was conscious of an emptiness that made him see Komako’s life as beautiful but wasted, even though he himself was the object of her love; and yet the woman’s existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin. He pitied her, and he pitied himself.” “He was conscious of an emptiness that made him see Komako’s life as beautiful but wasted, even though he himself was the object of her love; and yet the woman’s existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin. He pitied her, and he pitied himself.”

Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country  (1935)

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Modern (2009) illustration of a modern girl in Taisho style.

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