Scope and Contents An appendix includes an English treanslation of 'Shikei Senkoku' (Death Sentence, 1925) done in conjunction with the MAVO group, Hagiwara Kyojiro's first collection of visual poems; a facsimile of this book (1972) is held by the Sackner Archive. Kerim Yasar, Princeton Univsersity reviewed this book (abridged by Sackner) on the Internet:William O. Gardner's Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s joins a growing body of English-language scholarship dealing with modernist and avant-garde writers and literary movements in interwar Japan. Gardner takes an explicitly historicist approach to his subject, writing that this work embraces the challenge "of probing the relationship between the modernist literatures that made a vivid appearance in the 1920s, and the rapidly transforming experience of urban life during the same period. In other words, it explores the relationship between Japanese modernism and Japanese modernity." This is an ambitious goal as...