Publisher/河出書房新社

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Photograph collection for the Afterlife (With OBI) by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's leading photographers. This book is a collection of photographs published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Shiseido Gallery and others in 2014. The title is Araki's coined word inspired by the Buddhist book "Ojoyoshu" (985) written by the Heian period priest Genshin, but "Ojoyoshu" is a book that teaches paradise after death. It is said that it was the foundation of the Pure Land idea. The background to this awareness of death is that Araki himself developed prostate cancer in 2009, the death of his beloved cat Chiro, and the experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Life and death have always been keywords in talking about Araki's photographs, but in this book, the appearance of the new wife from the appearance of the new wife to death and the death of Chiro, which are seen in "Sentimental Journey", are directly related. From the ones that depict death, the photographs of Araki are recorded over time, such as "Satchin" in the 1960s and photographs of Araki and Dentsu era. Araki's retrospective can be read like a magic lantern, but it is a book with the themes of "death" and "regeneration." With obi.