Publisher/東京中日新聞

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Japanese photographer Tokutaro Tanaka's photo book "White Egret". Tokutaro Tanaka is a photographer who has been called “the heron's difference” by the villagers, and has spent his entire life on “the heron”. Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1909, retired from the National Railways, which has worked for 24 years, and runs a photographic materials store in Urawa. Tanaka was fascinated by the fantastic beauty of white herons seen at Noda's Sagiyama (now Midori Ward, Saitama City) in Former City of Urawa, where he visited with friends in 1954. He started walking at Sagiyama, climbed trees, climbed the roof of a farmhouse, slipped his feet, and spent the night of the moonlit night with herons. From the following year, we set up a 15-meter-high yagra in the forest of Sagiyama and carefully captured the half-year life of the herons who nested in the yagura with the camera. This book contains illustrations that have been taken frequently for about seven years. A number of beautiful illustrations with deep monochrome gravure printing and beautiful whiteness and contrast of herons. Many of the works at MoMA and other famous museums in Japan and overseas are permanently stored. (From The Japanese Photobook 1912–1990)