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``Orihime Fudoki'' is a collection of works by Japanese female photographer Yasuko Bemi. Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1942, after working at a publishing company, he became a freelance photographer, and worked as a botanical researcher using plants as a motif, such as playing with flowers and dyeing through traveling and walking in the fields. He has published photo and essay collections such as ``Dyeing'' and has been active as a botanical artist since the 1980s, holding many solo exhibitions. This book is a valuable collection of works compiled by Yasuko Bemi in the 1970s, focusing on Japanese textiles and the women (orihime) who create them. The series of manufacturing processes of ``growing, spinning, dyeing, and weaving'' of ``Aizu hemp'', ``Uetsu Zenmai Tsumugi'', ``Kakegawa Kuzufu'', ``Ryukyu Bashofu'', and ``Tamba Momen'' are described with photos and text. The chapter on Tamba Momen artist Kazuko Nishigaki, who received high praise from Masako Shirasu and Saneatsu Mushakoji, is both worth seeing and reading, and the cover is also Nishigaki's work. The title is by calligrapher Kazuko Machi, and the text is by Mitsukuni Yoshida, professor emeritus of Kyoto University. The focus on the blessings of ``nature'' and the jobs of ``women'' in an era when chemistry was predominant cannot be overlooked.