Publisher/養徳社

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"Snow Country Folklore" co-authored by Kunio Yanagida, a Japanese folk scholar, and Shigeru Miki, who worked as a film director and producer. Yanagida is famous as a leading scholar of folklore in Japan such as Tono Monogatari, but Miki is also a photographer who is known as a pioneer of Japanese documentary films. This book is a collection of works that recorded the life of the Okita region in Akita Prefecture over a year from 1940 to 1941. It is divided into chapters such as "people living on the soil" "rural fields", "food, clothing and housing and tools", "faith, nostalgic hi, others" The details of life are recorded in detail. The photo was taken by Miki during the filming of the film "I Live in the Earth" in the same region. Although he emphasizes the aspect of film materials and records of films that are neither news photographs nor art photographs, he can often see portraits of farmers and photos with an artist-like taste in casual snaps. Not to mention the folklore meaning of pre-war Japanese life, it is one book to know the photographer Miki Shigeru.