DAIDO MORIYAMA - INU NO KIOKU (MEMORIES OF A DOG)

Photographer: Daido Moriyama
Photographs & text: Daido Moriyama
Cover & design: Kiyoshi Awazu
Publisher: Kawade Shobo Shinsha (河出書房新社), Tokyo
Imprint: Kawade Bunko

Year: 2001. First Kawade Bunko printing, May.
Format: Softcover, pocket-size (bunko / French paperback format)
Dimensions: 15 × 10.5 cm (150 × 105 mm)
Language: Japanese
ISBN: 4-309-47414-4
Condition: Fine. No visible defects or signs of wear; exceptionally well-preserved copy.

Daido Moriyama is one of the defining figures of postwar Japanese photography, known for a visual language built around fragmentation, movement, urban alienation, and the unstable relationship between memory and reality. His photographs often transform ordinary streets, bodies, signs, and fleeting encounters into dense and highly subjective visual fragments.

This volume presents Moriyama's memoir and photographic writing in the compact Kawade Bunko format, a pocket-book series designed to bring significant literary and cultural works to a broad Japanese readership. The 2001 printing places Moriyama's work within this accessible publishing tradition, reducing the scale of the original photographic book while preserving its intimate relationship between image and text.

With photographs and text by Moriyama himself, the book offers a particularly direct encounter with his thinking and photographic practice. His writing and images operate alongside one another, revealing the personal memories, observations, and fragments of experience that inform his approach to photography. Rather than separating autobiography from image-making, Moriyama allows the two to exist as overlapping forms of recollection.

The cover and design by Kiyoshi Awazu, one of Japan's most important graphic designers and artists of the postwar period, further situate the publication within the radical visual culture of Japanese book design. Awazu's approach to typography, image, and composition provides an appropriate visual framework for Moriyama's fragmented and uncompromising photographic language.

Published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha in Tokyo as part of the Kawade Bunko series, this first printing from May 2001 represents the pocket edition that brought Moriyama's memoir to a considerably wider readership. Its small-scale format and everyday portability contrast deliberately with the monumental character often associated with photobooks, turning the work into something closer to a personal literary and photographic companion.

A significant Japanese edition for collectors of Moriyama's work, the volume brings together photography, autobiography, and postwar Japanese graphic design in one of the country's most recognizable paperback formats.