Chizu (The Map)
- Publisher
- Akio Nagasawa Publishing
- Year
- 2014
- Specifications
- hardcover, specially-made box
150 x 225mm
190 page
Text in Kenzaburo Oe “Map” Kikuji Kawada “On the re-reprint of ‘Chizu’”
Signed and numbered, limited edition of 600
Text by Kenzaburo Oe, “Map”, and by Kikuji Kawada, “On the re-reprint of Chizu”
The original 1965 volume is a legendary one, virtually impossible to catch sight of today.
While relentlessly tracking the stains scattered across the walls and ceiling of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Kawada projects memories of the war through young soldiers' portraits and letters, ruined fortresses and the like. At the same time his pictures of iron scrap at factories, Lucky Strike boxes brought in by the occupation forces and dumped Coca-Cola bottles document the process of transformation in postwar Japan.
This long-awaited new edition is a complete reprint, adopting Kohei Sugiura's original peculiar design with every picture running across two pages.