CHIRASHI

This book “CHIRASHI” gathers nearly 800(!!) flyers that were distributed and disappeared from the music scene after the Tokyo Rockers―a legendary group that was the catalyst for the emergence of the scene―that took off in 1978. It is a visual history of the Japanese independent music scene from the late 70s to mid 80s as seen through ‘chirashi’.

“CHIRASHI” is the ‘museums’ of Japanese indie rock flyers―almost all from the underground scene―ever published, and it is the passion of the people involved and the artists of the time that has enabled this collection of flyers, an existence doomed to consumption and disappearance because it is a medium of primary communication, to reach this amazing scale.