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A photo book by Hiroshi Hamaya, one of Japan's leading photographers, "The China I Have Seen". Hiroshi Hamaya was the first Japanese contributor to Magnum Photos, a pioneer of Japanese documentary photographers who have been researching and researching Japanese culture and folk for a long time since the end of the war. Hamatani, who was born and raised in Tokyo, which is vibrant and has remarkable modernization and economic and industrial development, even before and after the war, saw Niigata Prefecture for the first time and felt the gap between "time" and "culture". Real feeling. Then, from the 1940s, he traveled along the coast of the Sea of Japan and carefully explored the harsh climate and the lives of people living under labor, and published a photo book "Snow Country" (1956). The following year, he published "Ura Nihon" (1957), one of the best masterpieces in the history of photography, which has been highly acclaimed as a "textbook for photo books" for a long time. This book was published in 1983. A book that captures the "normal clothes" of the country, which visited the mainland in 1956, seven years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and is rapidly developing. (Recorded in The Japanese Photobook 1912–1990)