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Japanese photographer Kenshi Hirasashi's photo collection “Goat's Lung”. Photographer Kenshichi Hirashiki, one of Okinawa's most active photographers from the late 1960s to the 2000s. Speaking of the late 1960s, the 'Okinawa struggle' broke out on the island over the joint statement of the Japanese and US governments, the return of Okinawa and the return of the mainland, and many photographers visited the area and announced the actual situation through photographs season. In the midst of such circumstances, he is a photographer who keeps track of the mainstream of the struggle, continues to follow people living on the island, and continues to capture Okinawa with an internal look. Before returning, the women who supported their households by selling themselves at restaurants and brothels were considered “shame” after being returned to the entertainment districts and islands. . Many of the works that depict the lives of people who lived after the pre-war period are Okinawan microcosms that tell a unique history. The work of Kenshi Hirasashi who kept himself from the front stage and continued to “shoot a shadow” on the back stage was different from Okinawa, which was later conveyed by the photographers Toshiaki Kanayama and Higashimatsu Lighting. And there was the figure of Okinawa that could not be expressed because it was Okinawan. The book “Goat's Lung” is the last photo book left by Hirasiki.