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Taiyō 太陽 ( The Sun )

June 1963 - December 2000
Monthly

Founding Publisher: Heibonsha, Tokyo
Founding Editor: Tanigawa Ken’ichi

22,2 x 29 cm

Not directly a photo magazine, but more an, influential, art magazine with an attention to camera-based expressions.
Taiyo published special features on all aspects of Japanese culture, lavishly illustrated with photographs. It started with a Western, left reading, horizontal format.

In 1964 the first Taiyo prize was awarded to Araki Nobuyoshi. It was his first publication.
1967, the magazine changed from left opening back to Japanese right-hand opening.
1972, Bessatsu Taiyo was published , a pioneer of the Mook*, in response to the demand from readers for a more deluxe magazine. Since then, each issue has introduced a theme in depth, along with beautiful visuals and abundant materials.
* A book/magazine = mook

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From the introduction:
First Taiyo Prize Announcement: Satchin by Araki Nobuyoshi. “Satchin is a bright and cheerful boy in the 4 th grade of elementary school who lives in Mikawashima, Tokyo. Newcomer Araki vividly portrays the boy’s daily life.”

Comments by Ina Nobuo, Ito Sei, Kimura Ihei, Nakajima Kenzo, Hani Susumu, Hara Hiroshi, Higashiyama Kaji, Watanabe Yoshio
Page composition is by the magazines artdirector Tagawa Seiichi.

(..) Araki first intended to develop Sacchin into a film, but the stills were so successful that they were launched as their own independent works. Similar to his protagonist, Araki was born in downtown Tokyo, and there is a clear ease between the photographer and his subjects. ( Toda Masako in Japanese Photography Magazines 1880s-1980s, Goliga Books 2022)

I found three different translations of the Japanese title さっちん
DeepL translates from the Taiyo magazine as SACHIN, Google Translate as SATCHIN. Toda Masako uses SACCHIN in Japanese Photography Magazines. All the publishers are using SACHIN for the book title

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After his debut work Sa(t)chin won the Taiyo Award in 1964, Nobuyoshi Araki’s photos had been selected for publication in the magazine. Due to the printing methods of the time, they asked he send in the actual negatives, which were then never sent back to him. While in 1994, Araki’s debut work was re-issued as “Sachin” - an “outtake”, based on negatives he had held on to. The original work seemed lost forever.
More than 50 years later, the 2017 photobook Sachin, published by Kawade and designed by Satoshi Machiguchi, features a new selection based on the actual, original photos for which Araki received the Taiyo Award at the very beginning of his career.