青幻舎 SEIGENSHA Art Publishing

青幻舎

  1. instagram
  1. JP
  2. EN

Yokai no Shima: Island of Monsters (Japanese edition)

Price:
3,800 yen (JPY)
Author(s):
Charles Fréger
Language(s):
Japanese
Pages:
256
Binding:
hardcover
ISBN:
978-4-86152-529-2 C0072

The second in Seigensha’s Japanese editions of the works of Charles Fréger: images of otherworldly beings (yokai) in Japan as seen through the eyes of a French photographer.

Powerful, grotesque, and beautiful, the masked ritual figures of Japan variously represent the deities, otherworldly visitors, oni demons, and other denizens of the supernatural that haunt the fields, mountains, forests, and seashores of the archipelago. Deliberately divorced by the photographer from their festival contexts, the beings reach eloquently out toward us from where they stand in the interstices between the real and unreal.

This collection presents costumes from festivals in fifty-eight locales, from Akita in the north to the remote islands of Okinawa in the southwest. Also included are text contributions by critic Toshiharu Ito, writer and editor Akihiro Hatanaka, and poet and translator Ryoko Sekiguchi.

The original edition of this book was first published in the United Kingdom in 2016 by Thames & Hudson Limited.
The Japanese edition is available for purchase only within Japan.

Related books

[photograph] Books in the category

Love Hotels / Museums of Erotica two-volume boxed set

NewLove Hotels / Museums of Erotica two-volume boxed set
Kyoichi Tsuzuki

Love Hotels

NewLove Hotels
Kyoichi Tsuzuki

Museums of Erotica

NewMuseums of Erotica
Kyoichi Tsuzuki

Jinen

Jinen
Yu Yamauchi