Naoki Ishikawa Kunisaki Peninsula

This is a comprehensive photo book that photographer Ishikawa Naoki took over three years of visiting the area and taking photographs as part of the Kunisaki Peninsula Art Project 2012.

Ishikawa has traveled all over the world, including the Arctic, Antarctica, the Himalayas, and Africa, but this is the first time he has photographed one region of Japan so intensively and continuously and compiled it into a book.

The entrance to another world suddenly appears in a place that one might easily overlook. Ishikawa describes the Kunisaki Peninsula as a unique place where one can travel between the ordinary and the extraordinary, between hare and ke, and between this world and the other, all while becoming a stranger. It is a land with a unique climate where mountains and sea, gods and Buddhas, imported cultures and indigenous cultures intersect.

This book captures not only the magnificent natural landscapes, but also rituals such as the Shusho Oni-e and Kebesu Festivals, images of people engaged in farming, fishing, and hunting, and traces of faith and life engraved in the land, with a gaze that moves back and forth between the interior and exterior.

The photographs, taken from multiple angles, including from the sky, sea, and land, make the Kunisaki Peninsula stand out not as a "dead end" but as an "open entrance to the outside world."

Contains a total of 172 pieces.

Through photographs and text, this book quietly but surely conveys the depth of the Kunisaki Peninsula and the extraordinary presence that lurks within the everyday.

[Title] Kunisaki Peninsula
[Publisher] Seidosha
[Publication date] October 4, 2014 (first edition)
[Number of pages] 184 pages
[Size] Approx. 280*246*19mm, 1141g
[Format] Hardcover
[Language] Japanese, English
[Title reading] Kunisaki Hanto
[Authors/Editors] Naoki Ishikawa/Author, Masayoshi Nakajo/Art Direction/Design
[Printing] San-M Color/Printing, Koizumi Bookbinding/Binding
[ISBN] 9784791768097
[Condition] Used [7] Above average (slight scratches on obi)
[Accessories] Obi
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Naoki Ishikawa

Born June 30, 1977 in Shibuya, Tokyo. Photographer and adventurer.
His grandfather was Akutagawa Prize-winning author Jun Ishikawa.

At the age of 23, he became the youngest person at the time to climb the Seven Summits, and in 2024 he became the second Japanese person to summit all 14 of the 8,000-meter peaks.
Based on his interest in anthropology and folklore, he travels from the polar regions, islands, and Himalayas to the back alleys of cities, developing photographic expressions based on the themes of "movement," "body," and "experience."

His representative works include "NEW DIMENSION," "POLAR," "CORONA," "ARCHIPELAGO," "EVEREST," and "Marebito."

In 2008, he received the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award for his photo books "NEW DIMENSION" and "POLAR," and the Kaiko Takeshi Non-Fiction Award in the same year for "The Last Adventurer." In 2011, he received the Domon Ken Award for "CORONA," and in 2020, he received the Photographic Society of Japan Writer's Award for "EVEREST" and "Marebito."

He has published over 100 photo books and written works, including "Taking a Map of the Light of This Planet," "STREETS ARE MINE," and "MOMENTUM," and continues to describe the world through both photographs and words.
His works are housed in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, and other art museums both in Japan and abroad.

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