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Published by ICP and Steidl,  Asakusa Portraits by Hiroh Kikai (1945 -2020), contains over 220 photographs, a selection of the 600 portraits he has taken of visitors to the Senso-ji temple in the Asakusa district of Tokyo over several decades. His subjects, who happen to be passing by, are posed against the plain wall of the temple, which serves almost as a studio backdrop. Using a handheld Hasselblad and only natural light, the encounters with his rather idiosyncratic subjects were brief.
This beautifully produced book includes an introduction by Christpoher Philips and an essay by cultural historian Hiromichi Hosoma. The pictures themselves are accompanied by Kikai’s own droll titles. There is a slight knock on the bottom right front cover and slight marks on glossy dust-cover, but the pages inside are in excellent condition.


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