Personal statement by Japanese photographer Miho YOKOCHI
“I was born near Cape Irago, at the far end of the Atsumi peninsula in Aichi Prefecture; the place where the 'Song of the Coconut' is set. When I did not yet know what it felt like to travel, the word coconut seemed as nostalgic and distant to me as a graduation year book. But before long, I eventually came across coconuts at the ferry terminal in Irago, and I began to wonder where they came from and what kind of journey they had behind them. This book, 'Yashi no mi', is merely a small collection of photographs of mine, but I hope it will inspire you to travel and to think about your own home." (© free translated, iMho YOKOCHI)
Background information
"The photo volume 'Yashi no mi' by Japanese photographer Miho YOKOCHI is an alluring, strangely compelling photographic record of her journeys to seaside towns all over Japan." (© Sokyusha, 2021)
So, she stands in the tradition of another female Japanese photographer roundabout fifty years earlier, like Tamiko NISHIMURA, who went around the Tohoku, Hokuriku, Kanto, Kansai, and Chugoku regions of Japan; her series have been published as a book, 'Shikishima' with photographs taken during 1969-72.
Content
This photo volume, 'Yashi no I' by Miho YOKOCHI consists of 75 black-and-white image. The book is designed by Katsuya KATO.