Rebun Island is Japan's northernmost island. As the sun sets in winter, a snowstorm covers the island, ushering in the season of the far north, where legend has it that "Yamase (east wind) and monsters make noise at dusk." This book is a collection of photographs by photographer Sekiguchi Shinji, quietly capturing the lives and memories of families living on Rebun Island. Each photograph captures the daily routines of living alongside the harsh nature, the family's gaze, and the accumulation of time rooted in the land. This portrait record of the far north conveys the warmth that lies within the harshness and the certainty of people living as human beings.
[Title] Japan's "Northernmost Family": Memories of Winter on Rebun Island - A Photo Collection by Shinji Sekiguchi [Publisher] IPC [Date of publication] February 1, 1992 [Number of pages] Unpaginated [Size] Approx. 22*31cm. 800g [Format] Hardcover [Language] Japanese [Title reading] Japan's Foreign Friends: Rebunto Fuyunoki [Author/Editor, etc.] Makoto Sekiguchi/Author [printing] [ISBN] 4871987914 [Condition] Used, signed dedication on the colophon page, [5] average (slight tear on obi, slight creases on top cover, slight stains) [Accessories] Obi [Books featured] None [Related Exhibitions]
Born in Obihiro, Hokkaido in 1959. Graduated from Nihon University's College of Commerce in 1983. Graduated from Tokyo College of Photography in 1984. While still a student, he studied under Enari Tsuneo. From 1984 to 1986, he studied at the Department of Photographic Engineering at the Fachhochschule Köln (Technical University of Cologne) in Cologne, Germany, where he learned both photographic expression and technique. In 1987, he held the photo exhibition "German Paintings" at Minolta Photo Space Shinjuku and other locations throughout Japan. He is a member of the Japan Professional Photographers Association (JPA).
