Yoko & Nobuyoshi Araki - Tokyo Biyori (Tokyo Daylight) - Chikuma Shobō 1997

Tokyo Biyori began as a joint creative project between Nobuyoshi Araki and his wife, Yoko Araki. First serialised in 1989 in the journal Shisō Kagaku (Thought Science), the original format followed their long-established pattern: Yoko writing the text, Araki providing the images. However, after just three issues, Yoko was diagnosed with uterine cancer and hospitalised. On January 27, 1990, she passed away.

Overcome with grief, Araki spent the following year in deep mourning, unable to create. Eventually, he chose to complete Tokyo Biyori on his own. The latter half of the book, in contrast to its gentle beginnings, becomes a tender yet melancholic tribute. Through quiet photographs and sparse, aching words, Araki expresses his enduring love and loss in a way only he could: intimate, raw, and deeply personal.

210p - JP - 19,5x13,5cm - hardcover with dust jacket - very good condition