This is revised version of the best-selling photobook of Syoin Kajii's "NAMI",originally published by Little More in 2004.
This is a first photobook of Syoin Kajii, who won the grand prix at the 1st FOIL award.
Syoin Kajii has been taking photographs of the waves in Sado island with his digital camera while being a priest of Shingon in the island.
Making the close investigation of the velocity and hight of the wind, Syoin Kajii carefully catches the aimed waves, and even in the furious storm, he ambitiously keeps directing his lens to the waves.
These his particular effort and belief made up this spiritual and dynamic photographs which give out overwhelming power.
Through the art of the designer Hideki Nakajima, this publication has been completed as a magnificent and noble photobook.

※There has been no changes in the contents and the cover from the "NAMI", published from Little More in 2004.

Syoin Kajii Profile
Born in Niigata, Japan, in 1976.
He graduated from Koyasan University, BA in Mikkyo (Esoteric Buddhism) in 1999.
He has visited various countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea and the United Kingdom, and actively collected materials.
In 2004, he was awarded the 1st FOIL Award for his series of picture in which he took a succession of waves on a shore in Sado.
Following the award, he published“NAMI”, and was awarded Newcomer of the Year 2005 by The Photographic Society of Japan for this collection. Recently he has been taking active part as a photographer, while being a monk of the Shingon sect in Sado island.

Title: NAMI
Photographer: Syoin Kajii
Design: Hideki Nakajima
Price: 2800 yen (tax excluded)
ISBN：978-4-902943-21-4
Dimension: 251x383cm
Pages: 40
Binding: Hard cover
Full-color
(July, 2007)