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"The Meaning of the House" is a photo collection by Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama. Alongside Nobuyoshi Araki, he is one of Japan's leading postwar photographers. While renowned for his portraits of women, including gravure, child idols, and nudes, Kishin Shinoyama also had a strong curiosity for the "human scent" of architecture, space, and food, capturing the "atmosphere of the times" in a variety of fields to satisfy his visual desires. This book, one of his early representative works alongside "28 Women," "Olere Olala," and "Sunny Day," is a collection of approximately 80 homes he visited across Japan, photographing them without regard for geographical, stylistic, academic, or other "meanings," relying instead on the human experience, scents, and grime of hands. From modern homes influenced by Western culture to quaint traditional Japanese homes and ruins, this collection is a masterpiece of postwar architecture that explores the peculiar atmospheres created by human activity and the relationship between humans and their homes. The meaningful text by Koji Taki was later published separately as "The Living House" and has been reprinted many times. (Shipping box heavily damaged)