Publisher/彩流社

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"Ama no Gunzou" (New Revised Edition, 2nd Printing, with Obi), a photo collection by Japanese photographer Yoshiyuki Iwase. While Yoshinobu Nakamura is famous as a photographer who has followed "ama" (female divers) for many years, Yoshiyuki Iwase was the original, dedicating his life to photographing ama in his hometown of Onjuku, Chiba. Born in 1904 into a prestigious family that owns the sake brewery "Iwanai," which boasts a history of nearly 300 years, Yoshiyuki Iwase worked as the owner of the brewery while also pursuing his life's work as an amateur photographer, photographing "ama" for over 50 years. He held his first solo exhibition at Matsuya in Ginza in 1993, and in 1957 he won the Prime Minister's Award at the Japan Photographic Art Exhibition sponsored by the Mainichi Shimbun. Born and raised in Onjuku, Sotobo, the village was once a semi-agricultural, semi-fishing community where women worked as ama (female divers), diving into the sea to collect abalone, turban shells, and seaweed, forming the basis of their livelihood. At its peak, there were reportedly as many as 400 ama. This lifestyle was bound to captivate the photographer's heart, and he has captured on camera the energy and healthy beauty of these women of the sea who endured harsh and arduous labor to survive. His first photo collection was published privately in 1983 when he was 79 years old, and since then it has undergone several revisions, with this book being the fourth edition. Second printing. With dust jacket.