#showa fashion
Famous Japanese Feminist Authors. Left Yoshiko Yusa who was a famous russian/japanese translater and right her long term partner, another feminist author Toshiko Tamura.
Actress/dancer Ashita Matsuko, at the Moulin Rouge Theater Shinjuku
From left to right are 伏見愛子 Fushimi Aiko, actor/film director 小崎政房 Ozaki Masafusa, 明日待子 Ashita Matsuko, and actress 望月優子 Mochizuki Yūko.
1935
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明日待子
Ashita Matsuko (1920 - )
Ashita Matsuko is a former popular actress and dancer during the wartime era. She was the poster girl of the Moulin Rouge theater in Shinjuku, Tokyo during the early Showa era until after the war.
During the war, the Japanese government utilized her for national policy and featured her in various war posters and publishings, including “idol” magazines published by the Army/Navy intended for soldiers on the battlefield. Many soldiers looked forward to receiving the magazine.
Ashita Matsuko smiling while reading a newspaper article about a naval battle in Malaya on December 10, 1941.
The first edition of the Navy-published “idol magazine” 戦線文庫 Sensen Bunko (Frontline Paperback)
Poster for a performance in Manchuria.
Here’s how she looks like now at the age of 97.
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戦時中アイドル 明日待子
Wartime-era idol, Ashita Matsuko (1920 - )
Ashita Matsuko is a former popular actress and dancer during the wartime era. She was the poster girl of the Moulin Rouge theater in Shinjuku, Tokyo during the early Showa era until after the war.
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