INTERESTING JAPANESE MAGAZINE #10:

the MAP MAGAZINE.

(i can't read the kanji on the cover. if you can, please translate it (and transliterate it too) and email me, ok?

 

ok, here's new hobby: collecting Edo period, antique maps.feudal-era urban planning fetish. totally obsessive, full color, close up, nothing left to the imagination. . . just picture after full-color picture of topography!! is that underground and kinky enough for you??? this magazine has NOTHING but maps; a different city each issue. this issue is, i think, Nagoya (according to the porn-selling granddad behind the counter at least). and there's enough guys out there with this hobby to keep this slick, expensive magazine in business every damn month! they have beautiful, realistic, isometric landscape-y style maps. . .and blueprint styles.

here's a close-up of the cover: