Chichi no kioku / Memories of Father

Masahisa Fukase
Chichi no kioku / Memories of Father

Photographs: Masahisa Fukase

Publisher: IPC/Inter Press Corporation

168 pages

Year: 1991

Comments: Softcover dust jacket and obi, 200 x 230 mm. First edition, 1991. Black & white photographs. Text in japanese. Minor traces of foxing. In very good condition. Very fresh copy. Scarce.

Masahisa Fukase was an established commercial photographer in Tokyo by the mid 1950s. In 1971 he began journeying back to his native Hokkaido and photographing his family. This book, a combination of Fukase's own pictures as well as some from the family 'archive' is an achingly lyrical biography-in-pictures of his father. It follows the elder Fukase from his boyhood days in rural Hokkaido, through is young family life, into his middle and old age ; Fukase's looks unflinchingly at his father's, illness, decline and death--right through to cremation and memorial.