
The Riverbank Fish Market
- Publisher
- Sokyusha
- Year
- 2020
- Specifications
- Hardcover, colour
230 x 230 mm
96 pages
90 images
English / Japanese
Limited edition of 300 copies
Edited by Michitaka Ota
Design: 塚本明彦 / 赤川延美 (typesetting)
Printing: 株式会社サンエムカラー
In October 2018 the Tsukiji Fish Market closed for good and moved to a new location in Tokyo. Before the closure Reiko Mogi visited the market without knowing anything about it and let instinct and sensibility guide her through the place, photographing whatever drew her interest. The book is less a record of a place doomed to disappear than a visual feast of sights and phenomena that have now vanished. She treats the market almost as an ecological environment rather than a human-made reloading site, focusing on the auction ceremonies, the knives used to carve the fish and the many handlers as much as on light glistening in rain puddles or peculiar patterns of rust. The afterword is in Japanese and English.