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A photo book by the Japanese architect, Nishikawa Aoi, "Festival Mana". Nishikawa Aoi is also known for its design of the "Ryusei Kaikan", a modern building with no modern architecture and the headquarters of the Ikebana Ryusei School. He is a professor at the Nihon University College of Art, and is an architect who writes architecture books and contributes to architecture magazines. This book is "from the eyes of the architect to dig into the form of prayer centered on the festival", and also has festivals in Japan and other parts of the dojo god and houses, and is the root of Japanese life. Focus on It is a sequel style of “Form of the house” (1958) which Nishikawa visited an old house and recorded in the photograph, and it seems to have continued shooting around the festival, but as a co-worker of the shooting The photographer Izumi Iwase is participating. It is composed of color and monochrome pages, but with regard to monochrome by Nishikawa shooting, in particular, high contrast, roughness, 2 gradations, etc. work different from the purpose of recording photo, and it is also an artistic somewhere. One book with many attractions, including the dynamic image of the festival.