Publisher/海風社

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A photo book by Japanese photographer Junichi Ota, "The Bereaved House -Family Memories-". Born in Nara Prefecture in 1950, he dropped out of Waseda University's Faculty of Political Science and Economics, and after graduating from Osaka Photography College, became a freelancer. "Women's Ikaino" (1987), which follows women living in Ikaino, where many Koreans live in Japan in Ikuno-ku, Osaka, and Hansen's disease patients who have developed into a major social problem live in a sanatorium. Junichi Ota creates works focusing on socially vulnerable people and people and places that are generally invisible, such as "The 100 Years of Hansen's Disease Sanatorium" (2002), which depicts everyday life. This book is a collection of works that traces the traces of the family left in the vacant house, which is increasing with the reality of declining birthrate and aging population, as described in "The vacant house that lost a certain point, its 139 appearance" (from the obi). The vacant house, which was taken over 6 years from 2010 to 2016, is not an abandoned house, but a house managed by relatives, etc. An attempt to awaken the memories of the family of the day from the sight that left a strong impression of "Showa" such as folk crafts and Japanese dance that seemed to be souvenirs displayed in the living room, lace and vinyl laid on the table. Are piled up.