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Akka Buraku

Hirokazu Ishida
Akka Buraku

Photographs: Hirokazu Ishida

Text: Hirokazu Ishida

Publisher: Shashin Hyoronsha

32 pages

Pictures: 31

Year: 1973

Comments: Stapled softcover, oblong size, 18 by 26cm, b&w photographs richly printed on mat paper. Some stains and colored with a small fold on cover. Extremely rare Japanese photobook.

The second book of the photographer with the same publisher after Baramon to Janta.

In this new opus The photographer documented a north part of Japan called Akka. He photographed the habitants during 10 years, mostly farmers from 1963 to 1973. In this self-sufficient place the technology didn't reach it even during the economical boom in Japan.