$43.73
- Hardcover
- 72 pages
- 220 x 261 mm
- Japanese, English
- Aug 2025
Following “Vagrant Birds” and “Resident Birds,” “The Boat in the Grass” is Shoichi Ito’s third photobook in a series about shores and bodies of water in the San’in region in the southwestern part of Honshu, Japan’s main island.
As Ito notes in his afterword, he is not a local. Having moved to the region later in life, Ito still retains the ability to notice and frame its natural landscape with the eyes and interest of an outsider. Through the use of different color palettes, seasons, and compositional approaches, each of Ito’s photographs reveals the variety and depth that can emerge from sustained attention to a landscape.
“Thirteen years have passed since I decided to make the San’in region my final home. Have I really started growing my roots down here? Or have I just drifted and gotten washed here? I couldn’t think of any way to find out, so all I could do was to continue to take photograph in places I have visited and captured many times.”
― from Shoichi Ito’s afterword
