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Japan's leading photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. This book, “Waiting in Ruins”, is the 11th volume of the 20th volume of Nobuyoshi Araki's complete works published by Heibonsha. “The sky, flowers, and Yamorinsky are all taken on the balcony of Gotokuji apartment where I live. My wife Yoko died on January 27, 1990, and then I started taking pictures of the balcony sky and flowers.” `` In the case of Atashi, once I announce it as a book, I will not shoot the same place, but only the balcony continues to be shot, '' Araki also said, this book was taken after the death of Yoko It consists of photos of flowers, sky and balcony. Due to the absence of Yoko, the home where the inhabitants were lost, the weathering balcony, and Araki, who became mentally like a shell. Deteriorating motifs such as dried geckos and withered flowers are also used a lot, and the feeling of ruin is amplified, but the thought of Yoko is felt in the words of Araki `` because it is unpleasant when the ruin becomes empty '' . Araki's unique expression of life and death is a book on the balcony.