Hiroh Kikai “Persona”
Last autumn I promised to introduce some photo books I bought in Tokyo. Over the next weeks I plan to introduce some my favorite acquisitions from this trip – promised! ;-)
Does anybody know Hiroh Kikai?
I had never heard of him until I saw his book “Persona” last year. “Persona” contains portraits of people from Asakusa/ Tokyo, whom Hiroh Kikai photographed for three decades since 1973.
Today Asakusa is best known for its Senjoji Temple, a temple famous for Tokyo’s biggest festival taking place late spring every year, while in the first half of the 20th century Asakusa was the major entertainment district of Tokyo.1
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Notes
- ↑1 A very vivid description of the bustling live of Askakusa in the 1920th can be found in in Kawabata’s novel “The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa”.
