Publisher/銀河書房

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"SL no Shi - Okushinano Fuyu no Tabi (Signed)" is a photo collection by Japanese amateur photographer Kimio Misawa (1933-). Born in Nagano Prefecture, Misawa pursued photography while working as a middle school teacher. This book compiles selected photographs of steam locomotives taken between 1967 and 1972. The setting is the snow-covered winter of Okushinano. The book documents in monochrome the era when steam locomotives were an integral part of daily life in the region, capturing locomotives moving across white snowfields, rising smoke, and the scenery along the railway lines. The late 1960s and early 1970s, when the photographs were taken, was a time when the Japanese National Railways was rapidly moving towards smokeless operation, and steam locomotives were disappearing from many areas. This book records not only the railway itself, but also the vanishing winter landscapes of Shinshu. This photo collection conveys the railways and local culture of the Showa era, preserved not by a professional photographer, but by a teacher who lived in the area and continued to point his camera at it for many years. Signed by the photographer .