Nangokusho: Ode to the Southern Lands of Japan
Atsushi Fujiwara
Sokyu-Sha
Hardcover
104 pages
290 x 210 mm
2013
Atsushi Fujiwara follows the steps of his grandfather through the south of Japan, guided by his book of Tanka poems called Nangokusho. In “Nangokusho” there’s a lyrical feeling of loneliness, a quest for lost roots, Atsushi’s eye translates poetic verses in visual imagery, he hunts the invisible, the long gone. A slow wandering through empty streets, railways and backyards, Nangokusho is a silent ode to the Southern lands of Japan.
(Source: https://landscapestories.net/en/archive/2014/family/projects/atsushi-fujiwara)
About the Artist
Atsushi Fujiwara is a Japanese photographer and the founder of the photography magazine Asphalt. Fujiwara has collaborated on numerous projects with Akira Hasegawa who was the editor of the well-known Asahi Sonorama Shashinshu series of twenty-seven books published in the late 1970s; many of which are now considered important examples of postwar Japanese photography.
atsushifujiwara.com
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About the Publisher
Sokyu-sha is one of the many galleries in Shinjuku Gyoen. As well as being a gallery space, it is also one of the most unique and prolific photography bookstores in Tokyo.
(Source: https://www.shashasha.co/en/publisher/sokyusha)
