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Tatsumi Hijikata Furoshiki and Dog
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Photographs of butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata taken by Kenji Ishiguro in 1970.
Published to coincide with Ishiguro’s solo exhibition at Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza, opening on Wednesday, October 14.
The book presents the complete series, including works that have remained unpublished for many years.
On the day of the photo shooting, I brought a 160 cm x 160 cm furoshiki.
A furoshiki is a uniquely Japanese wrapping cloth that you use for packing up things by tying its four corners.
Mr. Hijikata agreed to be packed up.
The tied-up furoshiki on the floor of Asbestos-kan looked like a package that someone had forgotten there.
Quietly, yet fiercely, it unwrapped into Butoh.
– Kenji Ishiguro
Photographs: Kenji Ishiguro
Butoh: Tatsumi Hijikata
Text：Takashi Morishita
Special Thanks: Hijikata Tatsumi Asbestos Hall
- Size
- 212 x 290 x 13mm
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 88 pages
- Publication Date
- October, 2026
- Publisher
- Akio Nagasawa Publishing
Kenji ISHIGURO
石黒健治
Born in 1935 in Fukui Prefecture. Graduated from Kuwasawa Design School in 1959, and received a Best New Artist Award from the Photographic Society of Japan in the same year. Main exhibitions include “Fuko na wakamono-tachi,” Natural,” “Theater,” and “Fufu no shozo.” His works have been published in photo books such as Ken-san, HIROSHIMA NOW, and Natural, and in the photo-mystery book Sachiel-shi no passport. His broad-ranged activities further include taking charge of photography for Shohei Imamura’s film A Man Vanishes, and directing the movie “Muryoku no ou” (Toei Central Films) among others.
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