Hikaru Kaze – Okinawa / Sparkling Winds – Okinawa

First Edition, 1979. 136 pages.

Book measures 10.5 x 14.5 inches. Hardcover in dust jacket, in photographic illustrated slipcase. Text in Japanese. In 1972, Shomei Tomatsu moved to Okinawa, which had a major influence on his photographic work. Hikaru Kaze is a subsequent volume of medium format color photographs from the late 1970s, focused on the everyday island life and pace of Okinawa's people, and on their peculiar customs, traditions, rites and ceremonies. This book also includes many portraits.

Dust jacket and slipcase show faint rubbing. Near Fine in Near Fine slipcase. A clean bright copy.