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"Wadachi" (The Tracks) is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Toru Kono (1907–1984). Starting with his studies under Nakaji Yasui and Bizan Ueda, and his participation in the avant-garde photography group Tanpei Photography Club in Osaka in the 1930s, he later joined the Democrat Artists Association after the war, and then co-founded the Spiegel Photographers Association with Takeji Iwamiya in 1953, making him an artist who traversed the flow of Kansai modernist photography. Nakaji Yasui, as a representative figure of the emerging photography movement, brought a constructive perspective and modernist thought to Japanese photography, and Spiegel played an important role as a place to connect pre-war avant-garde photographic expression with the new photographic consciousness of the post-war era. Within this lineage, Kono focused not on special events, but on the sense of unease and alien presence lurking in everyday landscapes, and continued to view photography not as a reproduction of reality, but as "the discovery of seeing itself." This book is a collection of works spanning approximately 44 years, from 1930 to 1974, and is a book that traces the trajectory of the perspective cultivated over a long period of time. This book is both a personal history and a quiet reflection of the history of Kansai photography from the pre-war to the post-war period. It includes texts by Takeji Iwamiya, Shisui Tanahashi, and Hatsutaro Horiuchi. An extremely rare book. (Included in The Japanese Photobook 1912–1990)