Book Title: Poet Island
Photographer/s: Atsushi Fujiwara
Place of publication: Tokyo, Japan
Year of publication: 2015
Publisher: Sokyusha
Language: English, Japanese
Dimensions of book (cm or inches): 28 x 24 cm
Edition size: 600
Binding, paper & printing details: Hard cover, perfect bound, offset double toned black and white
Number of pages:72
Number of pictures: 61
Designer: Koichi Hara (trout)
Editor: Michitaka Ohta
Printer: Sun M color Co. LTD
ISBN: 978-4-904120-47-7
Retail price: 45 EUR
Where to buy: Personal online store
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Link/s to existing book reviews: http://faraway-eyes.blogspot.de/2015/04/fujiwara-atsushi-poet-island-shijin-no.html
Summary of project: Published by Sokyusha, Fujiwara Atshushi’s Poet Island is a slow and sentimental documentation of the abandoned spaces on Nagashima Island and Nagashima Aisen and Komyo-en, sanitariums where the diseased people of Hansen were quarantined away from the rest of Japan. He muses on the work of famous pre-war poet Kaijin Akashi’s, who was quarantined there and his own faded memories of the place that he too visited as a child.