Publisher/青幻舎

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"Kamaitachi" (2018, Signed) is a photo collection by renowned Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe. Through collaborations with artists such as his first photo collection, "Man and Woman," his first collaboration with Hijikata Tatsumi, and "Ordeal by Roses," with writer Yukio Mishima, Hosoe pursued issues of "life" and "sexuality" that lie deep within humanity, and devoted himself to free and experimental photographic expression. His conceptual style and works incorporating Japanese elements are considered to be among the works that brought postwar Japanese photography to global recognition. This book is a reprint and popular edition of a photo collection published in 1969, marking the second collaboration with dancer Tatsumi Hijikata. The "kamaitachi" is a legendary creature that embodies the spiritual energy of Tohoku. Hijikata takes on the role of this legendary figure and performs a vivid performance set in downtown Tokyo and rural Akita, expressing the ripples created by encounters with people, the sensuality of the local climate, and the orgasms of life and death. This is one of Eikoh Hosoe's early representative works, depicting the intense aesthetic sense that dwells within himself through his exceptional visual aesthetics. This 2018 edition is a reprint of the 2008 edition. Signed by the photographer .