Kaiko Takeshi Nonfiction Award かいこうたけしノンフィクションしょう
Edition 16 (2018)
NonfictionLiterary award
Winners
1 peopleA nonfiction work following the friendship and practice of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang and Tadashige Shiga, who keeps planting cherry trees in Iwaki, Fukushima. It layers post-disaster land, art, memory, and border-crossing action to depict hope through two unconventional lives.
Ninety-nine thousand cherry trees and contemporary art come together in post-disaster Fukushima in an almost miraculous way.
372 pages
nonfictioncontemporary artFukushimaearthquake disasterfriendship