Shishosetsu (I-Novel)

Photographs: Nobuyoshi Araki

Publisher: Byakuya Shobo

108 pages

Year: 1986

Comments: Softcover under dust jacket, 283 x 211 mm. First edition, 1986. Black & white and color photographs. Text in japanese. In rather very good condition, tends to fade a little bit due to time. Copy signed by Nobuyoshi Araki.

"Izumi Suzuki I Novel (Signed)" is a collection of works by Nobuyoshi Araki, a photographer who is still very popular around the world. This book is a collection of memorial works for Izumi Suzuki, a novelist who committed suicide by hanging in front of her children in 1986, and was published the same year she died. Suzuki, who was a literary genius girl, went to Tokyo with the aim of becoming a novelist, worked as a nude model and a pink actress, and has been active as a novelist and essayist since the 1970s. However, after a close and fierce marriage with alcohol, alcohol, and her husband Ryuichi Sakamoto, the genius alto saxophonist Kaoru Abe (Abe suddenly died of an overdose of drugs), her mental health deteriorated. Gradually, he received public assistance and died in 1986 at the young age of 36. This book is a book by the combination of Nobuyoshi Araki and Akira Suei, who swept the era in the "photo era" at the time, and a collection of works by Izumi Suzuki by Araki, which was scheduled to be published by a certain publisher in the early 70's. A book made on the base. Araki's demo work, which had been shelved and gone missing, was found by chance the same year that Suzuki died, and Araki asked Suei to publish it. In addition to Izumi Suzuki's "Koe no Nai Hibi" and "Tokyo Era", texts by Toru Mishiro, who belonged to the editorial department of Kadokawa Shoten at the time, are also included.