Ichiro Kojima - Tsugaru

Photographs by Ichiro Kojima. Texts (in Japanese) by Yojiro Ishizaka and Kyozo Takagi. With 47 black-and-white gravure plates. Cited in Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and „70s: “From Kaneko and Vartanian: “Tsugaru brings together the poetry of Kyozo Takagi, the photographs of Ichiro Kojima, and a text by novelist Yojiro Ishizaka, who also edited the book. These three individuals are native sons of the northernmost region of Japan‟s main island, Aomori Prefecture. In their words and images they create a unique portrait of their homeland, the prefecture‟s Tsugaru Peninsula, which has a strong, independent sense of itself and its historicity.“