Asakusa Portraits
by Hiroh Kikai
Photographs: Hiroh Kikai
Publisher: ICP/ Steidl
264 pages
Pictures: 219
Year: 2008
ISBN: 978-3-86521-601-4
Price: 250 €
Comments: Edited by International Center of Photography, Hardcover 27.3 x 22 cm. English, 1. Edition 03/2008. Condition: slightly smashed corner.
The Asakusa quarter of Tokyo has a shady past—it was the home of some of Japan's most notorious pleasure palaces. Today it embraces this history by remaining a steadfast holdout of independent culture, which encompasses traditional comedy theater and some of the most innovative burlesque in the world. Asakusa has long attracted bohemians who opt out of Japan's contemporary consumer society, yet it is also home to the famous Senso-ji temple, which attracts floods of tourists. Over the past two decades, Hiroh Kikai has created an extensive and unforgettable series of street portraits from the diverse mass of people who pass through the district. Posed against the stark walls of the temple, his portraits of Asakusa's iconoclasts radiate a sense of hard-won individuality. The photographs are accompanied by Kikai's own pithy commentary.
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