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Japanese photographer Hiroshi Hamaya's photo book "Back Japan / Japan's Back Coast". A pioneer of Japanese documentary photographers who have been researching and researching Japanese culture and folk for a long time since the end of the war, he is the first Japanese contributor to Magnum Photos. Hamatani, who was born and raised in Tokyo, which is vibrant and has remarkable modernization and economic and industrial development, even before and after the war, saw the first visit to Niigata prefecture and realized the difference in "time" and "culture". The photo book "Snow Country (1956)" has been published since the 1940s, traveling along the coast of the Sea of Japan and carefully exploring and publishing the lives of people living in harsh climates and under labor. This book was published the following year. Beginning with the sentence "For humans to understand humans" and "For Japanese to understand Japanese", the climate and people's daily lives along the coast of the Sea of Japan are described in detail. One of the best masterpieces in the history of photography that accused the unknown behind Japan, such as the masterpiece "Awara no Taue / Tauejo", which can be said to be a symbol of primitive agriculture. Title: Shiko Munakata, Introduction: Yasunari Kawabata. With a signature . (Recorded in The Japanese Photobook 1912–1990)