India, with a Japanese accent

From: India Abroad | Date: March 26, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Venugopal, Bijoy
India Abroad
03-26-2004
For 20 years, Japanese architect Takeo Kamiya visited India like an
ordinary tourist. He traveled the country, unnoticed by his Indian
counterparts, meticulously photographing and documenting monuments and
buildings.

Kamiya single-handedly photographed and documented 612 buildings in 287
Indian cities, towns and villages in his book The Guide To The Architecture
Of The Indian Subcontinent (Toto Shuppan, 1996). Through the efforts of
Indian architect Gerard da Cunha, who chanced upon the book during a visit
to Japan in 2000, an English edition was published ...

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