Your Nearest Neighbor

Yuri Gagarin, the hobbyist photographer, at home with his wife.

This, too, is Yuri.

Gotta have your daily affirmations

Nikita Fedosov, 1964.

A zunari (head-shaped) three plate iron of ‘yaro-to’ (rough fellow’s head) shape with boar’s bristle forming the hair with a tied top-knot, the mabisashi of a further plate of red-lacquered iron forming a high forehead, maedate (fore-crest) of two opposed carp of wood with gold foil, a four tier gold-lacquered Hineno shikoro (neck guard) of close red-laced itazane (plain iron sheet), single sheet iron red-lacquered reisei (fierce style) menpo (face mask) with gold-lacquered teeth, vestiges of a bristle moustache, four tier yodarekake (bib) lacquered gold and red-laced matching theshikoro

Nikolai Glushkov, 1983.