Odasaku Daido Moriyama

An Exceptional Photographic Scroll Where the Literature of Decadent Writer Sakunosuke Oda Intersects with Daido Moriyama's Gaze

With a farewell to Odasaku in his heart, Daido Moriyama wandered the streets of Osaka. Daido Moriyama: Odasaku (Japanese Edition) is a work where "Keiba" (Horse Racing), a 1946 short story by Sakunosuke Oda—a leading figure in post-war modern Japanese literature—fuses with raw snapshots captured by Moriyama in Osaka.

This publication marks the third installment in a collaboration series featuring Daido Moriyama, modern literature, and designer Satoshi Machiguchi. Through the radical bookmaking of Machiguchi, who describes a photo book as "a second passport," the text imbued with the scent of Showa-era Osaka and the photographs brimming with the heat of the modern streets compete and deeply intermingle. Transcending the conventional boundaries of a photo book, it is a thrilling volume where words and images trigger a powerful chemical reaction.