Publisher/赤々舎

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The photo collection "Kyokuto Hotel" by Japanese photographer Michio Washio. Born in Tokyo in 1941, Michio Washio graduated from a maritime school, and after that, he got a job at a shipping company and worked as a crew member on a cargo ship bound for overseas destinations. During his time at sea, he traveled to more than 50 countries by ship, and during that time he started taking photographs after a chance encounter. He held his first exhibition at Nikon Salon in the early 1970s, and since then he has been active as a professional photographer, working as an exclusive photographer for the magazine "Focus" from its launch, a relationship that continued for nearly 20 years until it ceased publication. This book is a collection of photographs taken over several years at a simple lodging house for foreign travelers in Sanya, Tokyo, once known as a town for day laborers, in the spring of 2005. As he talked to the photographer about why he came to Japan, where he was going, and what his impressions of Japan were, the photographer felt as if he was traveling to a place he could not even predict. I put these feelings into the photographs, and furthermore, I put my heart into the photo book, leaving plenty of space for the photographs to be photographed, as if to record the journey ahead. I have compiled this series into one book.