Hotaru, Firefly | Yoshio Mizuguchi | Sokyusha 2019 [SIGNED]

Yoshio Mizoguchi’s portraits in this book girls and women of all ages in Japan: girls playing on the beach, older women in kimonos during a shopping trip, a woman provocatively raising her leg, another showing only her face, her body hidden behind a tree. All photos has been taken between the early 1990s and the early 2000s. 

“At some point in my life, I had come to think of women as being comparable to fireflies. When the sweet nectar of my youth was gone, I took a camera as my new firefly scoop and decided I would capture new fireflies. It is 35 years now since I began shooting fireflies. I hoped to convey that passion and the subtle sensuality that women possess.” -  from Yoshio Mizoguchi's afterword.

Although the volume is in new condition it may have some imperfections on the cover due to long storage time.