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"One Short Summer (Signed)" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Yasuaki Hayashi. Hayashi has turned his camera to the landscapes and people he encounters on his travels, capturing the ordinary moments of everyday life in the places he visits—stations, trains, street corners, shop fronts, and the people who pass through them—rather than tourist attractions or dramatic events. This book compiles photographs taken over approximately nine years, from 1995 to 2003. The phrase "One Short Summer" in the title is also used in "A Short Summer in Zittau," a record of his visit to a small town in eastern Germany years later, and serves as a clue to understanding Hayashi's photographs. The limited time spent on a trip, the scenes that seemed insignificant at the time, and how they resurface in memory years later. Hayashi's photographs convey a quiet gaze towards such time and memory. Rather than viewing foreign lands as special places, he focuses his gaze on the lives of the people who live there, and at times, there is a striking sense of distance that makes him imagine himself living there. This book traces the memory of "summer," whose contours only become clear after it has passed, through each individual photograph. With a respectful signature .