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"Coal Mine -Yama-" is a photobook by Japanese photographer Seiichi Motohashi. Seiichi Motohashi is a leading documentary photographer and filmmaker in Japan. Since the 1960s, he has worked as a freelancer, pursuing the lives of people living in closed societies that are far from glamorous, such as coal mines, popular entertainment, circuses, slaughterhouses, fish markets, and Chernobyl. He has left behind many meaningful works that encompass human dignity and a great deal of social message. This book is his first photobook, published in 1968, and is a Taiyo Award-winning work. It is a documentary set in a coal mining town left behind in the wake of post-war economic growth and the energy revolution. It depicts the coal mining town and the people who live there, who were ruthlessly exploited while they were needed and then brutally abandoned when they were no longer needed. It portrays the daily lives of people forced to endure harsh conditions, from many deaths due to accidents to welfare due to unemployment and loan sharks, and it is a masterpiece of post-war documentary that revealed an unknown reality to the world. The first edition, printed using gravure printing to capture the atmosphere of the time, is highly recommended. First edition, first printing. (Included in The Japanese Photobook 1912–1990)