Eikoh Hosoe: Kamaitachi

Book measures 12 x 15 inches, in clamshell box measuring 12-7/8 x 16 inches. Original cloth in mylar dust jacket. Limited edition of 500 copies signed by Hosoe, this being #93. Designed  by Tadanori Yokoo. Photographs by Eikoh Hosoe. Performance by Tatsumi Hijikata. Preface (in Japanese and English) by Shuzo Takiguchi. Poem (in Japanese and English) by Toyoichiro Miyoshi. Book design by Ikko Tanaka. With 41 two-page gatefolds, with 34 duotone plates printed full-bleed on heavy matte art paper printed in bright blue on one side. 

“More than 35 years after it first appeared, Kamaitachi, a long out-of-print masterwork by Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe, gets its first publication outside Japan. Not just a reprint but a recreation in collaboration with the photographer and in homage to the innovative original. The book is not just a publication but an objet d’art in itself. Hosoe was known for pushing the boundaries of traditional photography through his interactions with important Japanese artists such as Butoh dancer Tasumi Hijikata and novelist Yukio Mishima. In Kamaitachi, he sought to recapture, with choreographic style, some of the lost landscapes and images of his childhood experience in the closing years of World War II.” 

A beautiful copy. Book is Fine in clean bright Fine clamshell box with crisp corners.