Gunkanjima Ingvar kenne like a buddhist koan –

like a buddhist koan – some truth

this docufiction imagines a narrative in which the lagoon city chronicles its own disappearance

the blackened sea of Britain

At the peak of illegal rave culture and the Manchester era they helped usher in

and on the best days even the strongest of sea legs would find the crossing unforgiving

Gunkanjima Ingvar kenne like a buddhist koan –First edition of Gunkanjima by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre (2013) First impression Large format hardback in as new condition Signed by the artists to title page No markings Published by Steidl About Hashima is a small island located off the extreme southwest coast of Japan, about ten miles from Nagasaki. Its darkwarship like silhouette earned it the nickname of Gunkanjima (battleship island). During the wave of industrialisation in the nineteenth