Publisher/京都書院

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"A Traveling Girl's Rest: Hakone and Yugawara Edition" by Japanese photographer Genki Numata (1961-). Numata, who works as a photographer, illustrator, and essayist, has documented nostalgic landscapes remaining throughout Japan, such as old inns and cafes, local train lines, and hot spring towns, from his unique perspective. Among them, the "Traveling Girl" series is known as his representative work, depicting the memories and feelings of travel of a place while featuring a girl as a traveler. The setting of this book is Hakone and Yugawara, which have developed into Japan's leading hot spring resorts since the modern era. While wandering through the slopes of the hot spring towns, inns, train stations, and shopping streets, the book describes a quiet time of travel that is different from a tourist guide. The landscapes captured in the photographs are records of reality, yet somehow they also seem like scenes from dreams or memories, and the presence of the girl adds a narrative quality. The perspective that focuses on the time accumulated in the land and the activities of the people, rather than the glamorous image of tourist destinations, is one of the great charms that runs through Numata's work. With a structure that oscillates between a photobook and travel literature, this book quietly reveals a longing for travel and a gaze toward disappearing landscapes.