Publisher/毎日新聞社

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"Japanesque (Special Box)" is the third book by Ikko Narahara, a photographer who has been active since the 1960s and is highly acclaimed worldwide. He spent several years in Europe in the 1960s, and during that time he felt a sense of solidarity backed by loneliness, and the gap between the country of ideas "Japan" and the country of reality "Japan" he felt after returning home. The "Japanesque" in this book expresses his "journey to a country that is close yet far away" in search of information about those complex feelings. Japanese traditions such as "Fuji," "Katana," "Noh," "Zen," "Color," "Sumo," "Ren (Awa Odori)," and "Fu (Samurai)" are photographed from both Western and Japanese perspectives, with a deep love and a sense of impatience. Edited by Shoji Yamagishi, art direction by Ikko Tanaka. This is a special box version with a hard case and English title.