Kamaitachi : photographs Eikoh Hosoe, performance Tatsumi HijikataAn undisputed masterwork among Japanese photobooks, Eikoh Hosoe and Tatsumi Hijikata's Kamaitachi was originally released in 1969 as a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Hosoe, the renowned photographer, and Hijikata, the founder of ankoku butoh dance, had visited a farming village in northern Japan, where Hijikata improvised a performance inspired by the legend of a weasel-like demon named Kamaitachi. As Hosoe photographed Hijikata's spontaneous interactions with the landscape and with the people they encountered, the two artists together enacted an intense investigation of tradition and an exploration, both personal and symbolic, of contemporary convulsions in Japanese society. In 2005, Aperture published a limited-edition facsimile in homage to the original, in close consultation with the artist; now, they have made this enchanting body of work available in its first ever affordable trade edition, which was painstakingly reworked by renowned graphic artist Ikko Tanaka--the designer of the original volume--shortly before his death. His reinterpretation of this classic book object, which is truly a paragon of Japanese bookmaking, includes as a special bonus four never-before-published images from the classic Kamaitachi series. Eikoh Hosoe was born in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, in 1933. He is an integral part of the history of modern Japanese photography, and remains a driving force not only for his own work, but also for his efforts as a teacher and ambassador, fostering artistic exchange between Japan and the outside world. Hosoe lives in Tokyo and is represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. |
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2009 trade edition AFTERWORD Eikoh Hosoe Akira Ankoku Butoh Aperture artist backdrop became become bird camera collaboration CONNIE PRENER countryside crouched DANCE EXPERIENCE dance form dance performance dancer dark Dear demon DONALD KEENE POEM dust earth earthen eaves edition of Kamaitachi enthralled evacuation evil express farmers footpath girl girl's happiness haiku haunted heaven HIDEO LEVY Hosoe chose Hosoe's images IKKO TANAKA invisible Ishikawa Takuboku Japan Japanese poet Kamaitachi photograph Katsu Kazuo Ohno leaping lens lives magnifying glass means memories modern Musumesan night Obaasan ominous Oyomesan perhaps phantom photog picture rapher record rice fields ritual roof SAN DIEGO scene series shadows short shrine SHUZO TAKIGUCHI slash smile soil spirit stage Tatsumi Hijikata terrible theater theatrical thirty-one tion Tohoku Tokyo TOYOICHIRO MIYOSHI traditional documentary translation twelve years old UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vacuum VACUUM'S NEST victims village wanted to capture weasel young boy Yukio Mishima 土方巽 細江英公