Daido Moriyama: Terayama Daido Moriyama

A collision of two giant spirits of an era—A wild, frantic underground journey through rare essays and raw imagery.

*Available only in Europe
*This book is secondhand.

Bringing together Shuji Terayama’s long-out-of-print, visionary essays from Sports-ban Uramachi Jinsei and approximately 100 striking monochrome photographs by Daido Moriyama, Terayama is a testament to an untamed creative era. Set against the gritty, back-alley landscapes of Tokyo swirling with the heat and friction of the times, this volume captures an avant-garde fusion of text and vision.

Rendered in Moriyama’s signature high-contrast, rough-grained style, the photographs evoke a deeply atmospheric and decadent world. Expertly crafted by book designer Satoshi Machiguchi into a substantial, immersive format spanning over 350 pages, this definitive edition resurrects a legendary intersection of post-war Japanese counterculture.