Yokainoshima

Island of Monsters

By: Charles Fréger

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Hardcover | 1 June 2016

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256 Pages

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23.8 x 18.7 x 2.7

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In Japan, the passing of the year is marked by festivals and rituals that have gone largely unchanged for centuries. Elaborate outfits, made from textiles as well as branches, straw, and other materials plucked from the natural environment, are donned in rural, agricultural, and fishing communities throughout Japan to celebrate seasonal rites of fertility and abundance. Yokainoshima (literally "island of monsters") explores the extraordinary crop of masks, costumes, and characters that reappear with the return of each season.

Charles Freger's photographs combine the attention to detail of a documentary photograph with individual portraiture in a fresh and distinctive style. Texts by specialists in Japanese folk culture and anthropology accompany the photographs, putting the huge variety of eclectic costumes in context with descriptions of the local festivals, dances, and rituals where they are worn.

This compelling sequence of new portraits by an internationally acclaimed photographer will captivate enthusiasts of fine art photography and far off places as it pulls back the curtain on a strange and magical centuries-old tradition.

Industry Reviews

'A very special new title that will enthrall Freger's many fans, photography aficionados and anyone with a fascination for folk traditions and Japanese culture' - Photography News
'Fascinating ... full of meticulously researched and beautifully executed photographs' - Royal Photographic Society
'The images in this book are utterly fascinating, as is the historical context laid out in the essays that bookend them. 'Yokainoshima' is a beautiful achievement, and one you can lose yourself in for hours' - Amateur Photographer
'Part artistic preoccupation, part creative ethnography, his series of carefully composed portraits channels the essence of what makes makes these spirits such an enduring and transcendental cultural phenomenon ... A man of immense enthusiasm and commitment to his craft' - It's Nice That

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