Mushrooms From The Forest 2011

The earthquake and subsequent tsunami of March 11th, 2011, near Japan's Tohoku region, led to the catastrophic equipment failures and nuclear disaster of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Six months later, on September 15th, the Japanese government prohibited the gathering and ingestion of any mushrooms grown in the forty-three cities of Fukushima prefecture. Homma collated photographs of mushrooms and the forests where he found them, within contaminated zones of the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear disasters, and in this book presents a mycological survey, as well as a contextual reference to tragedy and the resilience of nature.