A diary in haiku form, containing 28 short impressions of the big cities along the eastern Japanese coastline.

28 haikus by Durs Grünbein, translated into Japanese by Yuji Nawata.
Letterpress print in German and Japanese using zinc plates with grey printing ink on handmade mitsumata-tsuchi-iri paper by Hideo Ogawa.
Two calligraphies by Akiko Kojima, showing the characters kage (shadow) and machi (city).
Concertina with 28 tanzaku-paper strips woven in.
Slipcase with printed title and scaled down eki-stampu.
Cover made from clear vinyl.
First edition of the German text and its Japanese translation.
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8.6 cm x 36 cm (closed), 258 cm x 36 cm (open)
Edition of 35 copies using Arabic numerals and 6 copies using Roman numerals
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Tokyo, 2004