The Wilds of Shikoku: Tokushima Blue
Orders placed now will ship in mid-October 2023 because of my ongoing walk around all of Japan. This does not affect the PDFs of the book, included with every purchase, which are available for download immediately. Thank you for your understanding.
Tokushima Blue is a special edition of The Wilds of Shikoku, a book about a five hundred kilometer walk across Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s four main islands, in January and February 2019.
The indigo-colored cover is printed on paper from Awagami Factory, a seventh generation papermaker. They are based in Tokushima, which has been the home of Japanese indigo dyeing for centuries and where the walk described in the book begins. There are 16, hand-numbered copies, one for each day of the walk.
Tokushima Blue is otherwise identical to the regular edition of The Wilds of Shikoku: a slim, very large, unbound, softcover book — 36 pages, 260 mm × 360 mm — which contains a removable watercolor map of Shikoku by the British illustrator Alice Cleary.
- Written and published by Peter Orosz
- Photographed by Peter Orosz and Gyula Simonyi
- Edited by Nora Selmeczi and Timothy Harris
- Cover screen printed by Geza Selmeczi
- Designed by Akos Polgardi
- Product photos by Marton Novak
- Printed in Budapest in August 2019
- ISBN 978-615-00-5728-6
Shipping and delivery
Your purchase includes a physical copy of Tokushima Blue and the PDFs of the digital edition. Shipping is $5 to Estonia and $15 to everywhere else.
Orders placed now will ship in mid-October 2023 because of my ongoing walk around all of Japan. This does not affect the PDFs of the book, included with every purchase, which are available for download immediately. Thank you for your understanding.
Please indicate at checkout if you’d prefer to receive a specific number from this edition of 16.
Available numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Praise for The Wilds of Shikoku
“You know it’s a good book when it has a map in it”
“A psychogeographical masterpiece”
“An essential travelogue”
A note on Shikoku
Shikoku is known for the pilgrimage in which henro, Buddhist pilgrims, walk between 88 of the island’s temples. This book is not about that journey. Instead, it follows in the footsteps of Alan Booth, the English author of The Roads to Sata and Looking for the Lost, who walked across Shikoku in May and June 1983. Booth’s account of his own journey, “Roads Out of Time”, was published in the anthology This Great Stage of Fools.
About the author
📷 Portrait by Nishimoto Kyōko
My name is Peter Orosz. I live in Tartu, Estonia. My family name is pronounced O-ros — it’s the Hungarian word for “Russian”, which I am not.
The Wilds of Shikoku is my first book.
I’m currently walking around all of Japan, a journey you can follow here.
My second book, A Something Like Peace, about re-thatching a medieval farmhouse in the hills north of Kyōto, Japan’s old capital, will be published in 2024.
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