Sabu Revue Underground. Nos. 1 - 6

Kobe, Tatsuhiko Hatsuda, 1970-1973. Edited by Motoji Kojima. Complete set of the rare Japanese magazine for all things subcultural, including music (rock, jazz, Ravi Shankar, The Beatles), poetry and texts (Jiro Takamatsu, Takahiko Iimura, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Ted Joans), photography (Tadanori Yokoo, Taiho Yoshida), fashion et al. Published with slightly different titles, and in various formats, from a small paperback (18 x 11 cm), to a large tabloid (42 x 29 cm). Text in Japanese. Mild soilage, some dog-eared corners and light sunning, generally a very well-preserved important set.

(1) No. 1, December 1970. Hippie Radical Elegance. Texts by Genpei Akasegawa, Takuma Nakahira, Takahiko Iimura, Akiko Hyuga, Kenji Kanesaka, et al. (2) No. 2, April 1971. Beatles Forever. Cover by Tadanori Yokoo. Texts by Hiroshi Kamayatsu, Tadanori Yokoo, Shin'ichi Kusamori, photos by Shinpei Asai. (3) No. 3, October 1971. Fashion Democracy. Cover by Shinpei Asai. Texts by Kiiton Masuda, Yasuhiro Hamano, Yu Suwa, Tadanori Yokoo, Akiko Hyuga, Makoto Tsuji, Shinpei Asai. (4) No. 4, June 1972. The Message is the Medium. Cover by Shinpei Asai. Texts by Takahiko Iimura, Akiko Hyuga, interview by Shuji Terayama with Salvador Dali, Godard, Louis Malle, Le Clézio, and Adamo. Illustrations by Teruhiko Yumura, poems by Edith Peterson dedicated to Yukio Mishima. (5) No. 5, December 1972. Les Enfants Terrible(s). Cover by Shinpei Asai. Texts by Yukio Mishima, Akiko Hyuga, Yu Suwa, Mari Mori, Shuntaro Tanikawa, photos by Taiho Yoshida, poems by Jiro Takamatsu. Features (with numerous photographs) on Jean Cocteau, Andy Warhol, Norman Mailer, Françoise Sagan, W.H. Auden, Brigitte Bardot, James Dean et al. (6) No. 6, July 1973. Westcoast '73. Cover, design and layout by Mizuho Kataniwa, texts by Toshihiko Shimizu, Hiroshi Kamayatsu, Shin'ichi Kusamori. (total 6)