Remembering Lives Lived Wholeheartedly, Okinawa Airakuen 1975 | Mikio Suzuki | Aka Aka 2025 Tomoyuki Sakaguchi There might be some stains

There might be some stains on the back of the plates

Numbered 275/500 and signed

This is who I’m always most interested in

the serene atmosphere

the garden became a kind of basket that held all sorts of seeds and living things

Remembering Lives Lived Wholeheartedly, Okinawa Airakuen 1975 | Mikio Suzuki | Aka Aka 2025 Tomoyuki Sakaguchi There might be some stains"You know, there's a leprosy colony in Okinawa called Airakuen. People there suffer greatly from discrimination and prejudice. Go and take photographs that will rectify that. The director is a friend of mine, so I'll write a letter of introduction for you." Suzuki was invited to photograph the loprosy colony in Okinawa. He made several visits in Airakuen from 1974 and 1976. "The photographs taken at Airakuen amounted to approximately 2,300 individual