Publisher/平凡社

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A collection of photos by Yasuo Higa, one of Okinawa's leading photographers. After the special feature of Okinawan photographer Kenshi Hirashiki was set up at NHK's Sunday Museum, Hirashiki's work "Goat's Lungs-Okinawa 1968-2005-" attracted a great reaction, and more recently Ryuichi Ishikawa. "My photo" by an Okinawan photographer who has been attracting attention in recent years due to the success of the. The pioneer of Okinawan photography, who had been active before that time, was Kochi Hirayo and Yasuo Higa, who are known for his masterpiece "Painukaji". Although both became photographers in order to report "the tremendous reality of Okinawa" through photographs, they gradually turned their gaze toward the inside from "tsukare" and "nothingness", and the everyday life unique to "Okinawa"・ I have been devoted to culture. And this is the first book that Higa will focus on “inner Okinawa” through his encounter with critic Kenichi Tanigawa, and then shoot the unique climate and culture of Okinawa. Tanigawa is in charge of this book, which was taken with the motif of "shinji-izaiho," which is held once every 12 years in the sacred place of Ryukyu, Kudakajima.