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Encyclopedia of Flowers VI

Azuma Makoto and Shiinoki Shunsuke

Passing Down the Torch: Legacy of Nihon Bijutsuin (The Japan Art Institute)

NewHockney’s Pictures (Japanese edition)

David Hockney

NewAubrey Beardsley: Decadence & Desire (Japanese edition)

Jan Marsh

Beardsley, a Singular Prodigy

hobby, practical use, guide

What’s Manga?: An Introduction to Japanese Comics (English edition)

design, crafts, architecture

NewUtsuwa

Ishimura Yukiko

Asura: An Album

Mikiya Takimoto

Comming Soon

Coming Soon

NewThe Horses of Yururi Island

Okada Atsushi

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2025.03.12New

Exhibition “Uprooted: Plants Out of Place”

2024.12.10

Special Exhibition “Keiichi Tanaami: Memory Collage”

2024.11.01

Taipei Art Book Fair 2024

2024.10.15

2025 catalog

2024.10.15

Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024 – Frankfurt Book Fair

2024.10.02

Mikya Takimoto and Naonori Yago Exhibition “Re-Works”

2024.03.22

Exhibition “KENZO TANGE – KENGO KUMA, Architectes des Jeux de Tokyo”

2024.03.19

Yoshitomo Nara: “Traveling with Hazy Humid Day in Penghu” (Penghu Reclamation Hall, Taiwan)

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🫏Coming soon: “The Horses of Yururi Island”

🫏Coming soon: “The Horses of Yururi Island” by Okada Atsushi

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“My journey over this lone northern island has finally reached its end.”
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Hokkaido’s Nemuro Peninsula is the easternmost tip of Japan’s four main islands. Off the coast is Yururi, an island with a circumference of eight kilometers that is home to horses and mostly off-limits to humans. Yururi’s history is deeply connected to that of Hokkaido, from its early development, through wartime, and up to the present day.
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Yururi Island was first settled in 1950 by kombu fishers who arrived with their horses in search of a place to dry their harvests of kelp. Due to changes in the fishing industry, the last of the residents left some two decades later in 1971, and Yururi became uninhabited once more save for the horses, which were released into the wild. The former islanders continued to visit from time to time to manage the animals, but as these people aged the task grew to be a challenge, and in 2006 the stallions were relocated so as to halt new births and let the herd naturally die out. In the summer of 2011, when photographer Okada Atsushi first visited Yururi, the horses still there numbered twelve; by 2024, they had dwindled to two.

Over the intervening decade and few years, Okada documented this hidden haven relinquished by humans and roamed only by horses for some half a century. This book is his record of animals and landscapes that will soon be no more.

Author: Okada Atsushi
Languages: Japanese and English
Size: 182 × 257 × 25 mm, 1000 g (TBC)
Pages: 304
Binding: hardcover

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🚀Just published! “What’s Manga?: An Introdu

🚀Just published! “What’s Manga?: An Introduction to Japanese Comics (English edition)”

💡The bestselling introduction to manga studies, now in English: Join Curator Meow on a fun quest to uncover everything you’ve ever wanted to know about manga!

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Get all your questions about manga answered—in a manga! This is the complete English translation of the acclaimed introduction to manga studies—the first of its kind—originally published in Japanese (Seigensha, April 2024) under the full editorial supervision of the Kyoto International Manga Museum and Kyoto Seika University International Manga Research Center.

Come along as Curator Meow and Dr. Neko explore all sorts of questions having to do with manga, from the lay (“Are manga artists rich?”) to the profound (“What is manga, anyway?”). Here’s a one-of-a-kind primer on the basics of manga, now made available to manga lovers all around the world.

Due to design considerations, the English edition is presented in a larger format than the original Japanese edition.

😼The story
Curator Meow has just started her new job at the Kyoto International Manga Museum. She may be on the klutzy side, but she’s eager and she loves manga in a big way. Under the sometimes dynamic, sometimes levelheaded tutelage of her supervisor, Dr. Neko, she grows day by day into a true manga scholar.

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・Easy-to-understand introduction to the basics of manga studies through a story format starring Curator Meow and Dr. Neko
・Text supervised by the Kyoto International Manga Museum explaining the conventions and nuts and bolts of manga
・A rich range of full-color visuals, from ukiyo-e woodblock prints to overseas comics and more
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Edited by Kyoto International Manga Museum @kyotomm1125 and Kyoto Seika University International Manga Research Center
Manga artwork and illustrations: Horiguchi Itsu @itsuhoriguchi
Languages: English
Size: 182 × 257 × 14 mm, 460 g
Pages: 144
Binding: softcover
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📹🌹 'Encyclopedia of Flowers VI' Authors: Az

📹🌹 'Encyclopedia of Flowers VI'

Authors: Azuma Makoto and Shiinoki Shunsuke
Languages: Japanese and English
Size: 300 × 232 × 25 mm
Pages: 312
Binding: hardcover

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📝Exhibition "X-Ray FLOWERS" by AMKK
Dates: March 20 (Thursday) – March 30 (Sunday), 2025
Opening Hours: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Last entry at 5:30 PM)
Admission: Free
Venue: Basement Level 1, Kyoto Shimbun Building (Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture)

In conjunction with this exhibition, we will be offering an advance sale of the long-awaited latest volume VI of the 'Encyclopedia of Flowers' series exclusively at the venue. Additionally, a limited number of special edition featuring works from the exhibition will be also available. Don’t miss this opportunity!

🛍️Purchase the 'Encyclopedia of Flowers VI' at the venue and get a special limited-edition paper bag!

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📣🇯🇵Dear Friends in Kyoto! Floral Artist

📣🇯🇵Dear Friends in Kyoto!

Floral Artist Azuma Makoto's latest solo exhibition "X-Ray FLOWERS" is now on view in Kyotoーour home groundーhaving started March 20 at the basement level 1 of the Kyoto Shimbun Building.

In conjunction with this exhibition, we will be offering an advance sale of the long-awaited latest volume VI of the 'Encyclopedia of Flowers' series exclusively at the venue. Additionally, a limited number of special edition featuring works from the exhibition will be also available. Don’t miss this opportunity!
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📝Exhibition "X-Ray FLOWERS" by AMKK
Dates: March 20 (Thursday) – March 30 (Sunday), 2025
Opening Hours: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Last entry at 5:30 PM)
Admission: Free
Venue: Basement Level 1, Kyoto Shimbun Building (Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture)
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🛍️Purchase the 'Encyclopedia of Flowers VI' at the venue and get a special limited-edition paper bag! (Pic. 5, top-left)

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📣The eagerly awaited latest volume of the 'Ency

📣The eagerly awaited latest volume of the 'Encyclopedia of Flowers' series by floral artist Azuma Makoto and photographer Shiinoki Shunsuke is coming soon and is now available for advance sale at Azuma's latest solo show, currently on view in Kyoto, our home ground, with a limited special edition. See the book & exhibition information below, and check the next post for more details about pre-sale!
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🌹'Encyclopedia of Flowers VI'
Authors: Azuma Makoto and Shiinoki Shunsuke
Languages: Japanese and English
Size: 300 × 232 × 25 mm
Pages: 312
Binding: hardcover
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@shiinokishunsuke
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Even the smallest seeds will take root, one by one, to bring forth first a green meadow and ultimately a towering forest.
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Marking twenty years of collaboration between floral artist Azuma Makoto and photographer Shiinoki Shunsuke, this sixth volume in the "Encyclopedia of Flowers" series features four projects totaling more than 130 images. "Whole"—the artists’ life work, ongoing since the publication of the very first 'Encyclopedia of Flowers' in 2012—presents flowers and plants of wide-ranging varieties and provenance arrayed in nonhierarchical fashion. The two new series 'Breath' and 'Organ' capture biological workings of flowers ordinarily imperceptible to the human eye. And the singular 'Incunabla' project (from the Latin for “cradle”) offers digital bouquets that exist only in cyberspace. The back matter provides detailed listings of the plants in each work and an index of flower names.
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📝Exhibition "X-Ray FLOWERS" by AMKK
Dates: March 20 (Thursday) – March 30 (Sunday), 2025
Opening Hours: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Last entry at 5:30 PM)
Admission: Free
Venue: Basement Level 1, Kyoto Shimbun Building (Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture)
@amkk_project

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📣🇺🇸Dear Friends in Pittsburgh!🌿 Photo

📣🇺🇸Dear Friends in Pittsburgh!🌿

Photographer Koichi Watanabe @kwat009 will be joining the special exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History @carnegiemnh with his commissioned work! Please check the details below:

“Uprooted: Plants Out of Place”
Date: March 22, 2025 –
Venue: Hall of Botany and Third Floor Overlook, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Also, be sure to check out his stunning, award-winning photobooks on this occasion!

📗'Contrayerba in Dreaming' (2022)
A photo collection that tells the story of the mysterious medicinal plants that led humans, and their hopes and dreams, to crisscross the globe.

Languages:Japanese and English
Size: 227 × 303 × 21 mm
Pages: 160
Binding: hardcover
ISBN: 978-4-86152-896-5
🔗https://en.seigensha.com/books/978-4-86152-896-5/

📗'Moving Plants' (2015)

This unique collection represents photographer Koichi Watanabe’s 10-year efforts to document Japanese knotweed from places associated with the plant to the rest of the world, guided by its checkered and twisted fate.

Languages: Japanese and English
Size: 263 × 197 × 15 mm
Pages:112
Binding:hardcover
ISBN: 978-4-86152-535-3
🔗https://en.seigensha.com/books/978-4-86152-535-3/
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Watanabe Koichi was born in Osaka Prefecture in 1967 and graduated from Osaka City University in 1990. He completed the Inter Medium Institute photography course in 2000. His debut series, "Moving Plants," was a photographic and textual account of Japanese knotweed and its status as an invasive species in Europe. The series was shown in solo exhibitions at the Third Gallery Aya (2015), Shiseido Gallery (2018), and elsewhere, and published in book form by Seigensha in 2015. He won the 2023 Photo City Sagamihara Prize for the "Contrayerba in Dreaming" project.

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📷'Listen to the Voices of the Shining Forest' b

📷'Listen to the Voices of the Shining Forest' by Yoshiki Hemmi @yoshiki_hemmi
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A new perspective on the nexus between social issues and photographic expression: the beauty of landscapes destroyed—and created anew—by solar power generation.
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The color of the panels slowly changed according to the position of the setting sun, and I caught myself catching my breath at the sight of the panels that reflected the pastel-colored sky in beautiful hues. Quite simply, I thought the solar panels looked magnificent . . . Maybe I could totally change people’s perception of solar panels through these photographs?

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This first collection by Yoshiki Hemmi presents the series that won him the Grand Prix at the first #Canon #Graphgate, a competition for new photographic and video artists inaugurated in 2023. Hemmi’s work on the series began when he saw how utterly a solar power plant in his rural hometown had transfigured the landscapes he had known since childhood. This prompted him to become aware of the challenges solar power generation was creating for communities throughout the country; he soon began to photograph one such site and, through this endeavor, to explore possibilities for reconciling development with local lives.

The results cross the visuality of photography with scholarly fieldwork—Hemmi earned a master’s in sociology expressly for this project—to yield images of singular power that posit new affinities between social issues and photographic expression.
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Languages: Japanese and English
Size: 230 × 250 × 10 mm, 540 g
Pages: 96
Binding: softcover
Release date: 20241223
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#YoshikiHemmi #逸見祥希 #ListentotheVoicesoftheShiningForest #光さす杜の声を聴く #photography #Graphgate

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On the occasion of Seigensha's 30th anniversary, l

On the occasion of Seigensha's 30th anniversary, let's take a moment to reflect on our masterpieces! Which of our books is your favorite?

https://en.seigensha.com/books/

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Since our founding in 1995, Seigensha has published 1,000 titles. Looking back at our past lineup, we can feel the passion that was unique to those times. And we are filled with gratitude, realizing that our books have always been cherished by readers throughout the years.

And now, we are excited to announce that we will be reissuing some out-of-print books as part of our commemorative projects for this milestone year. The titles that will be brought back to life are currently being carefully selected based on requests we received from readers in Japan by the end of last year. The announcement of which books will be reissued is coming soon. We hope you’re looking forward to it!

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🎨'Absences: Toulouse-Lautrec' ・ Works Toulous

🎨'Absences: Toulouse-Lautrec'
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Works Toulouse-Lautrec treasured to the end of his life.
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After the death of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), the works he had set aside for his private keeping were taken in and saved from dispersal by his close friend and greatest champion, the art dealer Maurice Joyant. That collection—now at the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo—includes not only examples of the lithographs and posters for which Toulouse-Lautrec is primarily known, but also rare prints, banquet menus, and other works not housed anywhere else.

From "Histoires naturelles to Elles," "Miss Loïe Fuller," and "Yvette Guilbert," this volume covers 136 of Toulouse-Lautrec’s depictions of the Paris and the women that he loved so dearly throughout his life; sensitive and richly humorous, they reveal a fresh new aspect and appeal to this artist most famous for his work with posters. Also included are two works of flash fiction, “In Her Belly” and “Around Her Waist,” written by Erika Kobayashi in homage to Toulouse-Lautrec.
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Authors: Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, with editorial supervision by Hiroo Yasui
Languages: Japanese and English
Size: 257 × 190 × 19 mm, 570 g
Pages: 200
Binding: softcover
Release date: 20241123

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