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A collection of photographs by Katsumi Sunamori, a photographer born in Okinawa. Originally from Amami Oshima, Okinawa, Sunamori was born in 1951 to a Filipino father who had come to Japan as a military vehicle engineer for a U.S. military base, and a mother who came from Amami to work on the main island. However, his father suddenly disappeared when he was 8 years old, and his mother passed away when he was 15, when the US military actively hired local workers to make the Okinawa base permanent. After that, he left Okinawa and became a professional boxer, but left the ring before the age of 20 and went on to the path of photography. Since then, he has published numerous photo collections and essays on the subject of "Osaka" and "Okinawa".In 2009, he died of stomach cancer at the young age of 57. This book is Sunamori's representative work published in 1995 and won the 15th Ken Domon Award and the 46th Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer's Award. After nearly 30 years of lack of contact, he suddenly receives an airmail from his daughter, his sister-in-law in a foreign country, and his feelings for his father are reignited. A personal memory of Sunamori, who crossed over to Okinawa, Amami, and Manila as if tugging on the thread of fate. Missing obi-band.