TY - BOOK AU - Kikai,Hiroo AU - Phillips,Christopher AU - Fuku,Noriko AU - Hosoma,Hiromichi TI - Hiroh Kikai: Asakusa portraits SN - 9783865216014 AV - TR680 .K546 2008 U1 - 779.2092 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York, Göttingen, Germany PB - International Center of Photography, Steidl KW - Kikai, Hiroo, KW - Portraits, Japanese KW - Japan KW - Portrait photography KW - Photography, Artistic KW - Portraits japonais KW - Japon KW - Portraits (Photographie) KW - Photographie artistique KW - art photography KW - aat KW - Individual photographers KW - bicssc KW - fast KW - Asakusa-ku (Tokyo, Japan) KW - Pictorial works KW - Tokyo KW - Asakusa-ku KW - Catalogs KW - Interviews KW - lcgft KW - Illustrated works N1 - Interview with Noriko Fuku; essay by Hiromichi Hosoma; Introduction / Christopher Phillips -- "[T]ripping the shutter is a bit like sumo wrestling" : Hiroh Kikai in conversation with Noriko Fuku -- A gateway to history : the Hozo Gate and Asakusa / Hiromichi Hosoma -- Spring -- Summer -- Fall -- Winter / Hiroh Kikai -- Plates N2 - In 1973, Kikai, began to photograph the people he encountered in Asakusa and by 1984, he had settled on a specific photographic approach. Kikai, calls this approach "game rules" and it has remained unaltered to the present. This book showcases a collection of these photographs ER -