The 2nd printing of this gorgeous artist's book, published by RAM (Tokyo) on the occasion of Michael Kenna's exhibition at the Kushiro Art Museum in Hokkaido, Japan, is distributed in the United States by Nazraeli Press. From the afterword by Daido Moriyama: 'The land of Hokkaido as Michael responds to it, with a perspective foreign to us Japanese, appears entirely new. The landscapes he has captured suggest the vistas that the aboriginal Ainu people might have seen around them when Hokkaido was their heaven and earth, in the distant past before mainland Japanese settled there to colonize the island. The photographs seem to fix nature itself, pure, an unsullied world. Through Michael Kenna, a single photographer from another country, Hokkaido has acquired a completely new complement of natural features.' Nazraeli Press, 2010. 64 pp., 50 illustrations, 8 x 11
