Aam Aastha: Indian Devotions (Japanese edition)

Price:: 4,000 yen (JPY)

Author(s):: Charles Fréger

Language(s):: Japanese

Size:: 230 × 180 × 30 mm

Pages:: 324

Binding:: hardcover

ISBN:: 978-4-86152-905-4 C0070

Japanese

Contemporary Indian festivals and costumes celebrating deities in all their colorful and infinitely proliferating variety.

India is a land of countless deities—Hinduism alone is said to have 33 million of them, or even 330 million. Each of the innumerable traditions, legends, and faiths of the subcontinent boasts its own rites and festivals featuring people reenacting innumerable stories and characters, from gods and goddesses to the heroes of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. Photographer Charles Fréger brings his inimitable style to the images from the gloriously imaginative folk rites of contemporary India here in this book, the fourth in Seigensha’s Japanese editions of his works.

Includes essays by author and journalist Anuradha Roy and philosopher and critic Catherine Clément together with explications of costumes and characters by Kuhu Kopariha.

The original edition of this book was first published in the United Kingdom in 2023 by Thames & Hudson Limited.
The Japanese edition is available for purchase only within Japan.