ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FLOWERS Azuma Makoto, Shunsuke Shiiki

A hefty 511 pages!
A bouquet of 10,000 flowers for your bookshelf.

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Flowers that wither in an instant, marking the passage of time towards death, transforming their appearance.
Azuma Makoto and Shunsuke Shiiki have spent 365 days touching and confronting the life and death of these flowers with their own hands.

Transcending the frameworks of artistic expression and collections of works, this is a popular edition dedicated to conveying the beauty and precious life inherent in nature to a wide audience. It is, in a sense, a standard "botanical encyclopedia" for the modern era.

This book contains over 200 photographs, featuring tens of thousands of flowers from no less than 1,600 species.
These include flowers cultivated in Japan, the world's largest flower market, as well as plants native to the distant Amazon rainforests, Asian wetlands, and harsh natural environments, which have been gathered in Tokyo, crossing the sea and seasons.

■ Includes over 200 photographs and over 1,600 species of plants.
■ For practicality, an index at the end of the book identifies all the plants featured, including their scientific and Japanese names.