A Henro into the Sacredbook design.   2026



Over the past few years, photographer Kelvin Zhu has documented his pilgrimage to the eighty-eight temples he visited in the Shikoku region of Japan. The design’s narrative structure follows the sequential order from the first to the eighty-eighth temple. The author’s texts are interspersed throughout the nearly 600-page book in eighteen scattered segments, with blank pages before and after each text section for easy navigation during quick browsing. Finally, by folding the cover to the back and allowing the physical flyleaf to become the new cover, the binding line is concealed.


©Yuda Zhang2024