Grünbein’s poem on »Philemon and Baucis at the Pacific Coast,« written for this project after the March 2011 earthquake in eastern Japan, is illustrated with images by Swiss photographer Andreas Seibert.

Letterpress print on ganpi paper.
Translated into Japanese by Yuji Nawata.
3 photographs taken in Rikuzentakata and Otsuchi by Andreas Seibert.
Ulrich Hennig, Director of the German X-ray Museum in Remscheid, took the x-ray images.
Five photogravures printed by Lars Dahms in Hamburg on 70-year-old Japanese ganpi paper.
Colophon and remarks: Letterpress print on ganpi paper.
Case with embossed title by Bookbindery Mergemeier in Düsseldorf.
First edition of the German text and its Japanese translation.
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1 sheet, about 68 x 52 cm.
Edition of 28 copies using Arabic numerals and 5 copies using Roman numerals
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Tokyo, 2011