Ukima | Hikaru Honda | Zen foto gallery 2025

Ukima | Hikaru Honda | Zen foto gallery 2025Ukima is a neighborhood located in Tokyo Kita ward where Hikaru Honda moved after his career as a scriptwriter failed to take off. Far from being a meditation on failure and regret, this book records the daily life in Ukima, in the shared walks together with his wife Noriko and the time spent at home, Hondas camera records the moments of beauty that need to be discovered and actively noticed. On sunny days we took nothing but a camera and walked

the struggle for independence that lasted from 1969 to 1998

" - artist’s statemen

” and attempts to lay bare the true essence that lies dormant within all things

A bustling port town prior to World War 2

and poppy motifs

Just as both judo and sumo wrestling involve the strategic transfer of energy from one person to another

they feel nostalgic about the towns they visit on their travels

had spent extended periods of time in Cassis

viscerally personal

The binding is damaged

It was then that she planned the third part of this trilogy

originally published by Taka Ishii Gallery in 2006