Kagero

Daido Moriyama
Kagero

Photographs: Daido Moriyama and Nishimura Tamiko

Publisher: Haga Shoten

184 pages

Year: 1972

Comments: Softcover in a cardboard slipcase without original paper dust wrapper. Obi is missing. 270 x 190 mm. First edition, 1972. Included in A. Bertolotti, Livres de nus, p.165. Copy with a few folds, a little used but in very good condition above all.

Kagero, meaning ‘mayfly’ came about as a result of a collaboration with Dan Oniroku, author of numerous works of S/M fiction, and whose books were often adapted into softcore pink films produced by Nikkatsu studios, (Japan’s oldest film studio). Kagerocan be viewed as an extension of Provoke #2: Eros, an early landmark publication in Moriyama’s storied career. Kagero remains Moriyama’s sole commission to produce a series of erotica—work intended for consumption by a discrete and private audience. The images themselves consist of pictures of several nude women in states of bondage, set within natural landscapes.

Daido Moriyama photographed the models in this book and his assistant at this time Nishimura Tamiko photographed the landscapes.