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Kawada Kikuji's Chizu / The Map is a high point of Japanese photography and book design, originally published on August 6 1965, the twentieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. It comprises photographs of the ruined dome of Hiroshima's Prefectural Industry Exhibition Hall, now preserved as a peace memorial known as the Atomic Bomb Dome, and the abstract surfaces of its stained, scorched walls juxtaposed with pictures showing the aftermath of the bomb including melted glass, fused metal, graffiti, and symbols of Western occupying forces such as Coca-Cola bottles, and with photographs of military memorabilia from the museum at Etajima dedicated to the kamikaze pilots of the Special Attack Corps.

Second edition, signed in black pen on endpaper; (225 x 148 mm, 8¾ x 5¾ in); black & white photographs; photo-illustrated grey endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in black on spine and upper side, 16pp Japanese and English text booklet in stapled black wrappers, publisher's black cloth-covered board slipcase with photo-illustrated wraparound, original shrinkwrap with publisher's printed sticker, fine; [98]pp (including 45 gatefolds).