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"Ojoshashu / Photography for the Afterlife (With OBI)" is a photobook by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's leading photographers. This book was published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Shiseido Gallery and other venues in 2014. The title was coined by Araki, inspired by the Buddhist book "Ojoyoshu" (985) written by the Heian period monk Genshin, which is said to have been the foundation of Pure Land Buddhism, as it contains teachings on how to attain paradise after death. The background to this awareness of death includes Araki's own development of prostate cancer in 2009, the death of his beloved cat Ciro, and his experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Life and death are always keywords when talking about Araki's photography, and this book contains Araki's photographs from across the ages, from those that directly depict death, such as Yoko's appearance from her new wife to her death in "Sentimental Journey," and the death of Ciro, to those from the 1960s "Satchin" and Araki's Dentsu days. The book is a retrospective of Araki's life, and the themes are "death" and "rebirth." Comes with dust jacket.