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Syoin KajiiNAMI_Z07-Z082025
2025
$31,336.51
£23,645.47
€26,400
CA$43,675.96
A$47,477.23
CHF 24,882.26
MX$577,838.38
NOK 313,208.15
SEK 294,313.74
DKK 201,098.48
About the Item
Syoin KAJII (*1976, Japan)
NAMI_N01-N02, 2024
Lambda Print with Diasec Face, Diptych (two works)
Small: Sheet 63 x 168 cm (24 3/4 x 66 1/8 in.)
Large: Sheet 112.5 x 300 cm (44 1/4 x 118 1/8 in.)
Edition of 6
About NAMI II:
With his series Nami (Wave), Syoin Kajii brings one of Japan’s most iconic visual traditions into the present. For centuries, the wave has been a central motif in Japanese art – from Katsushika Hokusai’s celebrated woodcut The Great Wave off Kanagawa to Hiroshi Sugimoto’s meditative seascapes. Kajii continues this lineage by placing the sea not as a static or symbolic image, but as a direct and lived experience at the centre of his work.
Created along the coast of Sado Island, the photographs depict waves as fleeting, almost sculptural forms of light and movement. As both Buddhist monk and photographer, Kajii approaches the subject with contemplative patience: measuring wind and swell, waiting at the shoreline until nature itself composes the image. Shot at close range – often standing in the water – his works reveal the power, ephemerality and dynamism of the ocean in a way that transcends documentary photography.
Nami was awarded the 1st FOIL Award in 2004; the accompanying photobook brought Kajii international recognition and remains a cornerstone of his artistic practice. Like Hokusai’s great wave or Sugimoto’s horizons, Kajii’s photographs are more than representations of nature – they are distillations of impermanence, energy and time.
About Syoin Kajii:
Born in Niigata, Japan, Kajii currently lives and works as a artist and Buddhist monk on Sado Island.
Syion Kajii, graduated from Koyasan University in Mikkyo, in esoteric Buddhism, in 1999. He has been taking photographs since the age of 16, and after having served his Buddhist apprenticeship at Koyasan (Mt. Koya) from 1995 to 1999, Kajii travelled around the world, to places such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, and the U.K. taking pictures. While working as a monk of the Singon sect in Sado Island, he has been actively working as a photographer. In 2004 he was awarded the 1st FOIL Award for his series of pictures in which he took a succession of waves on a shore in Sado. Following the FOIL Award, he published his first photo book NAMI and was awarded the Rookie of the Year 2005 by The Photographic Society of Japan for this overwhelmingly energetic and spiritual book. Another of his projects consists of photographing rural places suffering from serious depopulation, which was published as Marginal Village in 2009, for which he was awarded The Gotoh Memorial Foundation prize. In 2010 Kajii published his second book KAWA (river) showing breathtaking images of rivers from his extensive travels around the world. His newest work TSUKI (moon/month), was produced in 2011, concurrently with his homonymous video work for the exhibition “Mysticism – Longing for the Absolute” at the Museum Rietberg.
– Syoin Kajii, Japanese Photography, Ocean, Waves, Water, Nature, Art, Colour, Japan, Diasec
- Creator:Syoin Kajii (1976, Japanese)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 44.3 in (112.5 cm)Width: 118.12 in (300 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Zurich, CH
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1280117103382
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