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POET ISLAND (signed - last copy)

by Atsushi Fujiwara

Photographs: Atsushi Fujiwara

Publisher: Sokyu-sha

72 pages

Pictures: 61

Year: 2015

ISBN: 978-4-904120-47-7

Price: 45 €

Comments: Book Size280 x 240 mm, Binding: Hard cover, Limited Edition 600

Published by Sokyusha, Fujiwara Atshushi’s Poet Island is a beautiful and sentimental documentation of the abandoned spaces on Nagashima Island and Nagashima Aisei-en and Komyo-en, sanitariums where the diseased people of Hansen were quarantined away from the rest of Japan. Having initially visited the island when he was 8 years of age to see his uncle who served as the general manager of the island’s sanitarium, Fujiwara returned again 35 years later and came across a poem by the famous pre-war poet Kaijin Akashi who was amongst those quarantined on Nagashima. Here Fujiwara photographs the traces of life which were once lived by the inhabitants with a delicate intimacy. Empty rooms, buildings and spaces lay overgrown with plant life, reflecting both memories and familiar spaces from both the poet’s past as well as his own.

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POET ISLAND (signed - last copy)

by Atsushi Fujiwara

Photographs: Atsushi Fujiwara

Publisher: Sokyu-sha

72 pages

Pictures: 61

Year: 2015

ISBN: 978-4-904120-47-7

Price: 45 €

Comments: Book Size280 x 240 mm, Binding: Hard cover, Limited Edition 600

Published by Sokyusha, Fujiwara Atshushi’s Poet Island is a beautiful and sentimental documentation of the abandoned spaces on Nagashima Island and Nagashima Aisei-en and Komyo-en, sanitariums where the diseased people of Hansen were quarantined away from the rest of Japan. Having initially visited the island when he was 8 years of age to see his uncle who served as the general manager of the island’s sanitarium, Fujiwara returned again 35 years later and came across a poem by the famous pre-war poet Kaijin Akashi who was amongst those quarantined on Nagashima. Here Fujiwara photographs the traces of life which were once lived by the inhabitants with a delicate intimacy. Empty rooms, buildings and spaces lay overgrown with plant life, reflecting both memories and familiar spaces from both the poet’s past as well as his own.

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