Tamaki Yoshida’s “At the Threshold” Artist Book & Glass Box Works Now Available for Order!
©︎Tamaki Yoshida / At the Threshold
RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES is currently presenting “Threshold: Images in Flux”, a joint exhibition by Tamaki Yoshida and Kazuhiko Matsumura, on view through May 10, 2026. The exhibition is part of KG＋2026 SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition, Tamaki Yoshida’s artist book “At the Threshold” is now available for online order. For those who have seen the work in the exhibition, as well as those unable to visit in person, this is an opportunity to encounter the book beyond the gallery space.
“At the Threshold” is a limited-edition artist book of 59 copies, developed from Yoshida’s tracing of the presence and traces of a single “problem bear” that appeared in Rausu, Shiretoko.
On a night when we believed “nothing was there,” was there truly nothing?
Through trail cameras placed in the mountains, nocturnal fieldwork, and the images that did — or did not — appear, Yoshida observes absence and presence, turning her attention to the unstable boundary where human and wild territories overlap.
For Yoshida, whose practice has long examined human behavior and social assumptions through our relationship with wildlife, “At the Threshold” marks the opening chapter of an ongoing project. The book was conceived through her participation in the 2023 workshop “Photobook as Object” at Reminders Photography Stronghold, and completed through a continued dialogue with Yumi Goto.
The edition of 59 copies corresponds to the total number of bears captured in Rausu between 2018 and July 2022, during the period leading up to the capture of the “problem bear” that became the starting point of this project.
Night landscapes, traces, and presences.
With each turn of the page, the unstable threshold begins to emerge. We invite you to experience this shifting boundary within the book.
The book can be viewed at the exhibition currently on view at RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES, and will also be available at KYOTOGRAPHIE PHOTOBOOK FAIR 2026 on May 9 and 10, 2026. Alongside these opportunities to see the book in person, online orders are now open.
“At the Threshold”
In recent years, the annual number of brown bears culled in Hokkaido has continued to rise, surpassing 2,000 in 2025—the highest figure since records began.
Preceding this increase, a single brown bear was captured in 2022 in the town of Rausu on the Shiretoko Peninsula. Beginning in 2018, the animal had repeatedly appeared in residential areas over the course of four years, attacking pet dogs tethered outside private homes. It came to be referred to as a “problem bear,” an individual understood to have crossed the boundary between human habitation and the realm of the wild.
This incident suggested that the division long assumed to separate human living space from wildlife territory was, in reality, far more ambiguous than previously believed.
Tracing the signs left by this individual, I installed trail cameras in the mountains of Rausu while also walking through the town at night, where bears were known to appear. What emerged was not the animal itself, but the sense of a possible presence. Had we truly been looking at the night we had trusted as empty? What appeared to be a void may not have been absence, but simply something that had gone unseen.
The boundary, perhaps, does not reside in the landscape itself, but in the way we perceive it.
This work serves as the point of departure for an ongoing research project that considers the unstable boundary between human and more-than-human realms of life. Through the observation of traces, landscapes, and absence, the project explores how the concept of separation is formed, and how it shapes contemporary understandings of coexistence.
ー Tamaki Yoshida
ABOUT “At the Threshold”
・Edition of 59 (Hand-numbered & signed)
・Photography, Photography, text, editing, printing, binding : Tamaki Yoshida
・Editorial Support, Project Development | Yumi Goto / Reminders Photography Stronghold
・Size :275mm×225mm×30mm
・Pages : 116pages
・Weight : Approx. 890g
・Language : Japanese (English translation included)
・Price: 13,200 JPY (Tax included / shipping charged separately)
Available Options
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- Artist Book “At the Threshold”
Price: 13,200 JPY
Tax included / shipping charged separately
- Artist Book “At the Threshold” + Glass Box Work
Price: 68,200 JPY
Tax included / shipping charged separately
Breakdown: Artist book 13,200 JPY + glass box work 55,000 JPY
**Please refer to the exhibition images below and select your preferred work number (#1–#9) when ordering the “Artist Book ‘At the Threshold’ + Glass Box Work” set. Each work is a unique piece, available only as the actual item currently on view in the exhibition.
- Artist Book “At the Threshold”
This set includes the artist book “At the Threshold” together with one glass box work by Tamaki Yoshida, currently exhibited in the joint exhibition “Threshold: Images in Flux” at RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES.
The glass box works are available in nine pieces only, numbered #1–#9. Each work is a unique piece, and the item you select will be the actual work on view in the exhibition. Delivery or collection of the work will take place after the exhibition closes.
Each glass box work will also come with a small surprise from the artist.
Specifications
Box size: 300mm × 215mm
Color print: 210mm × 297mm
UV direct print on glass surface
Black-and-white print: 285mm × 205mm
Lambda print mounted inside the box
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Exhibition view of the glass box works Venue: RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES.
Please refer to the exhibition images below and select your preferred work number (#1–#9) when ordering the “Artist Book ‘At the Threshold’ + Glass Box Work” set. Each work is a unique piece, available only as the actual item currently on view in the exhibition.
Exhibition view of the glass box works Venue: RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES.
Exhibition view of the glass box works Venue: RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES.
Exhibition view of the glass box works Venue: RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES.
The glass box work #1 Top：Color print（UV direct print on glass surface） Bottom：Black-and-white print（Lambda print mounted inside the box）
The glass box work #2 Top：Color print（UV direct print on glass surface） Bottom：Black-and-white print（Lambda print mounted inside the box）
The glass box work #3 Top：Color print（UV direct print on glass surface） Bottom：Black-and-white print（Lambda print mounted inside the box）
The glass box work #4 Top：Color print（UV direct print on glass surface） Bottom：Black-and-white print（Lambda print mounted inside the box）
The glass box work #5 Top：Color print（UV direct print on glass surface） Bottom：Black-and-white print（Lambda print mounted inside the box）
The glass box work #6 Top：Color print（UV direct print on glass surface） Bottom：Black-and-white print（Lambda print mounted inside the box）
The glass box work #7 Top：Color print（UV direct print on glass surface） Bottom：Black-and-white print（Lambda print mounted inside the box）
The glass box work #8 Top：Color print（UV direct print on glass surface） Bottom：Black-and-white print（Lambda print mounted inside the box）
The glass box work #9 Top：Color print（UV direct print on glass surface） Bottom：Black-and-white print（Lambda print mounted inside the box）