Publisher/Zen Foto Gallery

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A photo collection by Japanese photographer, Terutaka Hashimoto, "Goze Asahigraph Reprint (Signed)". Born in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture in 1939, he began his career as a photographer in the 1960s. Terutaka Hashimoto is one of Japan's leading postwar photographers, capturing the good old culture and original scenery of Japan that is being forgotten in modern times, such as "Kitakami River" and "Nishiyama Onsen", and is also famous for his portraits of famous people such as Choji Murata and Hideo Nomo, titled "Men's Faces". This book is a new photo collection of "Goze" works photographed by Hashimoto that were published in the weekly magazine "Asahigraph" in 1970 and 1973. A documentary that follows the daily life of "Goze", a blind traveling entertainer who traveled the villages of Echigo, Niigata Prefecture, singing shamisen. In 1974, the photo collection "Goze" was also published by Norasha, a publishing company led by Kazuo Kitai, which published many classic documentaries during that era. Signed by the photographer .