Kamaitachi | Eikoh Hosoe | Seigensha 2009 [SIGNED]

Expanded trade edition published in 2009 by Sigensha, following the prevoius limited reprint in 2005 by the same publisher.

"Kamaitachi was born in 1969 out of a powerful collaboration between photographer Eikoh Hosoe and Tatsumi Hijikata, the originator of Butoh dance. The work follows Hijikata as he carries out dynamic impromptu performances in Tokyo’s Sugamo and Katsushika districts and an old farming village in northern Japan; Hosoe responds to the dancer’s pulsating body and spirit and to the repercussions generated by encounters with local residents, capturing with an ever more penetrating gaze the feel of the land and the eroticism of life and death. Kamaitachi is the name of a legendary weasel-like creature, and true to the folkloric air of its title, this collection of singular monochrome images immortalizes a Japan that once was." - From publisher's website