Publisher/彩流社

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A photo book by Japanese photographer Yoshiyuki Iwase, "A group of sea maidens (newly revised edition)". Yoshiyuki Iwase is famous as a photographer who has been chasing ama, but Yoshiyuki Iwase is the ancestor who has been chasing ama for a lifetime in his hometown of Onjuku, Chiba. Born in 1904 under the famous family of sake "Iwase", which has a history of nearly 300 years, he has been shooting "Ama" as an amateur photographer for more than 50 years, while his main business is the owner of the brewer. Yoshiyuki Iwase continued. He held his first solo exhibition in Matsuya, Ginza in 1993, and in 1957 he won the Prime Minister's Award at the Japan Photographic Art Exhibition sponsored by The Mainichi Newspapers. Born and raised in Sotobo Onjuku, it used to be a semi-agricultural and semi-fishing village, where women dive into the sea as ama, take abalone, turban shells and seaweed, and use it as a basis for their livelihood. At peak times, there were a total of 400 ama. There is no reason why the way of life does not tickle the photographer's heart, and there are many wonderful works that capture the energy and health beauty of the women of the sea who survive the hard work. In 1983, when he was 79 years old, he published his first private photobook, which has been revised several times since then, making this the fourth edition.