
PHASE OF THE MOON
- Publisher
- Sokyusha
- Year
- 2016
- Specifications
- Hardcover, colour
312 x 232 mm
72 pages
66 images
English / Japanese
Edition of 450 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
A continuation of Hanamachi (2009, Sokyusha), in which Jun Hiraga turned his gaze on the downtown districts that went dark and then lit up again after the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011. In the afterword Hiraga cites an elegy from the ancient Japanese poetry anthology Manyoshu in which the poet laments the inconstancy of the world while looking at the waxing and waning moon, a verse he came across just as he finished compiling the East Japan part of the Hanamachi series, which he had worked on since 2012.