Publisher/深夜叢書社

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Japanese photographer Toshihiro Asakura's photo collection "Maro Akaji: Genya-jō (Signed)" is a collection of works by the late 1960s photographer. In 1969, he debuted as a photographer with the serial "Shinjuku Wanderer" in the magazine Asahi Graph, focusing on Shinjuku, an energetic and chaotic city that was a crossroads for various cultures, including theater, music, and photography, and a place where many people from the countryside drifted to. Asakura subsequently published serials in the same magazine, including "Ryūmin Retsuden" (1972), "Sasurai Utajo" (1975), and "Tenmure Geininroku" (1978). This book is another collection of works featuring Maro Akaji, leader of the butoh troupe "Dairakudakan," whose work has appeared in Asahi Graph and various other magazines. While Eiko Hosoe's "Kamaitachi" (1969) is also well-known, this book also features Maro, with his whitefaced face, exuding an eerie presence. In his afterword, Asakura describes Maro as "such a transparent, supple, and violent body," and seeks "what might be born when this body confronts a single landscape." This work crystallizes the results of his 10-year, on-and-off photographic journey. Text by film director Seijun Suzuki and poet Norio Osaki. Signed by the photographer . (Included in The Japanese Photobook 1912–1990)