Publisher/トラピスチヌ写真帖刊行會

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A collection of works by Japanese photographer Maze Submarine, "The Life of the Trappistines". His real name is Masatsugu Kobayashi. Born in Hakodate, Hokkaido in 1904, he honed his skills at a local photo studio, and after joining the Hokkaido Shimbun Hakodate branch office, he has been active as a reporter for the Social Affairs Department. After that, he left the company after working as a war correspondent in the Sino-Japanese War. Moved to Tokyo and started working as a freelance cameraman. Around this time, he began to call himself the pseudonym "Mase Submarine" and set up his own studio in Taito Ward to deepen his friendship with local literary masters and artists. He is also described as a "Leica master" who created a Leica club with Ihei Kimura and others, and has held solo exhibitions at Takemiya Gallery, etc., but died himself in 1959. This book is a masterpiece of Mase and is composed of works taken at the local Hakodate-Yunogawa convent "Trapistine Monastery". The hospital, which is normally off limits, is admitted at the recommendation of the priest, and is a collection of valuable illustrations containing a series of unknown service lives. A collection of works with rich monochrome tones that will wash your heart. Limited to 2000 copies. With edition number.