Publisher/彩流社

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"Ama no Gunzou (New Revised Edition)" is a photo collection by Japanese photographer Yoshiyuki Iwase. While Yoshinobu Nakamura is famous as a photographer who has followed "ama" (female divers) throughout his life, Yoshiyuki Iwase is the original who continued to follow ama in his hometown of Onjuku, Chiba. Born in 1904 into a prestigious family that owns the sake "Iwanai," which boasts a history of nearly 300 years, Yoshiyuki Iwase continued to photograph "ama" as his life's work as an amateur photographer for over 50 years, while working as the owner of the sake brewery. He held his first solo exhibition at Matsuya in Ginza in 1993, and in 1957 he won the Prime Minister's Award at the Japan Photographic Art Exhibition sponsored by the Mainichi Shimbun. Onjuku, where he was born and raised, was once a village of half-farming and half-fishing, where women worked as ama, diving into the sea to collect abalone, turban shells, and seaweed to make a living, and at its peak there were said to be as many as 400 ama. There was no reason why their lifestyle wouldn't appeal to a photographer, and the resulting collection of wonderful works beautifully captures the energy and healthy beauty of these women of the sea who endure harsh and arduous labor to survive. The photographer published his first photo collection privately in 1983 at the age of 79, and since then has revised it several times; this book is the fourth edition. The dust jacket is missing.