The long-awaited collection by Japan's leading expert of indigo dyeing―Shihoko Fukumoto.Indigo dyeing (aizome) is a Japanese traditional dyeing technique with deep rich color ("Japan Blue") and unique features. JAPAN BLUE is a collection of Shihoko Fukumoto's dyeing works from 1977 to 2015. Having her own aesthetic value, "seeking the ideal spatial consciousness," she succeeded in integrating traditional craftsmanship and indigo dyeing, with a contemporary sense of beauty. Fukumoto's indescribable work has not only brought her a remarkable reputation worldwide as a foremost figure of indigo dyeing, but has brought her recognition as a leading craftsman as well. The hemp cloth dyed by Fukumoto herself is used for the back page of the book.

FUKUMOTO SHIHOKO JAPAN BLUE

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Fukumoto, Shihoko

Antiques & Collectibles

Akaaka Art Publishing

An updated edition of Shomei Tomatsu's masterpiece, "The Pencil of the Sun." Shomei Tomatsu is one of the most influential Japanese photographers of the post-war era. This new edition consists of two volumes: "The Pencil of the Sun 1975" and "The Pencil of the Sun 2015." While the former 1975 version is upgraded with a new cover based on the out-of-print first edition issued in 1975, the latter 2015 version contains 103 photos of Tomatsu's later works, both published and unpublished. Two of them were rearranged respectively by two different editors with discussion, intending to succeed the original perspectives of Tomatsu but add new contemplations for readers.

The Pencil of the Sun: New Edition (Japanese Edition)

Arts & Photography

Tōmatsu, Shōmei

Photography & Video

Shunei Nishida - Aura

Shunei Nishida

Yoshihiko Ueda: Chamber of Curiosities. From the Collection of the University of Tokyo

Yoshiaki Nishino

Seiichi Furuya: Aus Den Fugen

Masashi Kohara

INNOCENCE is a unique book of photographs, portraits of sorts that Miyako Ishiuchi took of scars on women's bodies. We never see the faces of her subjects, only the marks which remain on their bodies. These black-and-white photos have been processed to make the contrast quite neutral, leaving little difference between the subject's skin, which is lit only by natural light. For Ishiuchi, these scarred bodies represent a kind of purity. In a text which accompanies the book, and has been translated into English, Ishiuchi states: "just as self, individuality and the like when piled on the plate of time seem silly and inconsequential, so youth and age, beauty and ugliness on the surface of the body are pretty much just two sides of the same coin." INNOCENCE" is a carefully considered study of the female body, from a perspective which is not often represented.-Publisher's website. Ishiuchi, became the first Asian female photographer to win the Hasselblad Foundation Award, in 2014. The Foundation citation notes: "Ishiuchi's work is extremely coherent and developing in a determined and distinctive way; using the camera and all of its aesthetic potential to investigate the intersection of the political and the personal aspects of memory Ishiuchi has been both a pioneer and a role model for younger artists, not least as a woman working in the male-dominated field of Japanese photography,"

Innocence

Ishiuchi, Miyako

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