E-HON (picture book) SIGNED

Shuntaro Tanikawa
E-HON (picture book) SIGNED

Photographs: Shuntaro Tanikawa

Publisher: MATOBA SHOBO (Self published)

44 pages

Pictures: 19

Year: 1956

Comments: Hard-back, original cloth cover with picture tipped-in. 24,2 by 25,8cm. First edition limited and numbered to 300 copies. Japanese text, poems and photographs from the author. This copy is dedicated. Some stains on cover and a few spots inside. An extremely rare piece in very good condition!!

Shuntarō Tanikawa 谷川俊太郎

Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931–) is a poet and translator. Born in Tokyo, he is the son of the eminent philosopher Tetsuzō Tanikawa (1895–1989). He published his first collection of poetry in 1952 under the title Nijūoku kōnen no kodoku (Two Billion Light Years of Solitude), and was soon writing song lyrics, scripts, essays, and criticism in addition to poetry. He has produced numerous collections of poems for children, as well as translations of children’s books from English, including Daddy-Long-Legs and Songs from Mother Goose. In 1983 he was awarded the Yomiuri Prize for Literature for Hibi no chizu (tr. Map of Days). With his work translated into English, French, German, Slovakian, Danish, Chinese, and Mongolian, he has gained a readership around the world.

E-HON is included in the Japanese photobook of Ryuchi Kaneko p 36,37,38,39 and in The Manfred Heiting p276,277

E-HON was reprinted in 2010,