Après-guerre contains four of Tomatsu Shomei's photographic series, made between 1951 and 1960: the first shows the men destined, by virtue of their offices and positions, to carry the burden of the post-war democracy in Japan; the second shows the young generation born after the war; the third comprises portraits of the actors who appear in Matsumoto Toshio's film Siiku, which dealt with the period immediately after the Japanese surrender; the fourth contains work previously published in various magazines, sequenced here to present a of contemporary Japanese society.

It was published as number 5 in the important Eizo no gendai 10-volume series of monographs by contemporary Japanese photographers.

First edition; 4to (258 × 210 mm, 10¼ x 8¼ in); black & white photographs, texts by Nosaka Akiyuki and Yamagishi Shoji in Japanese and English; white endpapers, white paper-covered boards, titles in black, dust-jacket printed in black, publisher's white wraparound band printed in brown and black, light sunning to spine, two creases to corner of front free endpaper, light foxing to upper panel, wraparound band flaps and also to endpapers and edges, original fitted vinyl dust-jacket, lightly worn, a very good copy; [136]pp.