Mao Ishikawa: Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa Analogue and belligerent shift

and belligerent shift

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Mao Ishikawa: Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa Analogue and belligerent shiftSession Press Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa, published in 2017, was the first US monograph by Okinawan photographer Mao Ishikawa, a highly revered figure in Japan. The release of the second printing in September 2022 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Okinawas reversion to Japan in 1972 since its occupation by the US after World War II. Red Flower celebrates the courageous and honest lives of women she met and befriended while working at bars in