170 × 240 mm, 368 pp., Mori Books 2023

The Kumano Kodo is a thousand-year-old pilgrimage route that has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2004. It stretches south of Kyoto through the prefectures of Wakayama, Mie, Nara, and Osaka. This region—the Kii Peninsula—is considered the spiritual center of Japan, as it is home to the three major shrines known as the Kumano Sanzan. The Ise Shrine, Japan’s largest sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Amaterasu, is also part of the pilgrimage route. However, the Kumano Kodo should not be perceived as a single trail with a defined start and end point. Instead, it is a comprehensive network of seven routes that intersect and complement each other, stretching over 600 kilometers through dense japanese cedar forests. Through over two hundred color photographs, this photo book explores the two-time journey along the route and attempts to capture what words alone cannot describe.

175 × 262 mm, 104 pp., Moribooks 2022

»The Book of Tea« was painstakingly photographed page by page in its original 1906 English edition using an old iPhone 6, then converted into text through OCR software and digitally reassembled. The originally unillustrated content was enriched with a curated selection of photographs, thoughtfully chosen to complement the text."

170 × 240 mm, 176 pp., Moribooks 2014

»Nihon no Jitai« (Characters of Japan) introduces readers to Japanese writing and linguistic culture, uncovering the many major and minor peculiarities embedded in the language. In addition to the various writing systems and their usage, the typographic characteristics of Japanese also take center stage.