Syoin Kajii

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)

423 villages will be disappeared in 10 years
without being realized by anyone...

This is a documentary by Syoin Kajii, which reports the severe circumstances of the depopolated small villages and the pressing lives of the people there with the authors earnes ant warm eyes.

Starting from Sado Island,where Syoin Kajii lives and works, he has visited, what we call "Marginal Village", where more than 50% of the inhabitants are over 65 years old, and taken photographs of the portraits of the people hold up through the hardship and scenary of such villages. While metropolitan cities like Tokyo are well know for the spectacular appearance and its the newest technology, the reality Syoin Kajii portrays is also the other, perhaps more realistic, aspect of Japan.

Syoin Kajii Profile:
Born in Niigata, Japan, in 1976. Graduated from Koyasan University in Mikkyo (Esoteric Buddhism) in 1999. From 1995 to 1999, he had served Buddhist apprenticeship at Koyasan (Mt. Koya). Then he visited various countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, and Britain, and actively collected materials for his works. In 2004, he was awarded the 1st FOIL Award for his series of pictures in which he took a succession of waves on a shore in Sado. Following the FOIL Award, he published a photobook NAMI, and was awarded the Rookie of the Year 2005 by The Photographic Society of Japan for this book. Recently he has been active as a photographer while being a monk of the Shingon sect in Sado Island.

	Title ：Marginal Village Photos and Texts：Syoin Kajii Design：Takashi Miyagawa Price：1400yen（tax excluded） ISBN978-4-902943-29-0 Size：19x13 cm Full Color／176 Pages／Soft Cover (February, 2008) *Japanese Texts Only