Sakura - Fukushima Samurai


  • Photographer
    Noriko Takasugi
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    27 September 2012
  • Technical Info
    Rolleiflex, 85mm

The Nomaoi Samurai warriors portrayed here were once residents in the area close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant but they are no longer allowed to live there. Each of them stands in the places that had a personal meaning to them in the area. 2000 people died in Fukushima due to 3.11, 80% of whom were from the area where the Soma Nomaoi is held. My ordinary life and Japanese root, which is not the extraordinary things for us but accumulation of our choices, came across to these Samurai while I am taking the light and shadow of them.

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