Publisher/深夜叢書社

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"My Cat, Other Cats (Signed)" is a photo collection by Japanese female photographer Hana Takeda. Born to author Taijun Takeda and essayist Yuriko Takeda, Takeda Hana began photography after graduating from high school when her father bought her a camera. After graduating from university, she continued photography while working part-time and became a freelance photographer. She is responsible for portraits at the Gendai Kajin Bunko. Many of her subjects are cats (stray cats), and she has published many cat photo books, as well as photo essays and a collaborative work with her mother, Yuriko, titled "A Pleasure Diary." In 1990, she won the 15th Kimura Ihei Photography Award for her photo book "Sleepy Town." This book is one of her earliest, little-known photo books, published in 1979. Featuring cats lingering in alleyways, roadsides, in front of homes, and in gardens, this book stands apart from the current trend of cat photography, which emphasizes "cuteness." The cats' natural appearance and unfriendly expressions, which are like ornaments in the landscape, are rather endearing, and the text at the end of the book by author Akira Arakawa, in which Takeda says that he "sympathizes with the freedom of cats," fits perfectly.