Publisher/Zen Foto Gallery

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Japanese photographer Shosuke Hashimoto's photo book "San'ya 1968.8.1 - 8.20 (Signed)". Born in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture in 1939, he started his career as a photographer in the 1960s. While capturing the good old culture and original scenery of Japan, such as "Kitakami River" and "Nishiyama Onsen", which are being forgotten in modern times, he is also famous for portraits of celebrities such as Choji Murata and Hideo Nomo, entitled "Man's Face". Terutaka Hashimoto, who was in the middle of the day. Published in 1974, he won the Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer Award for his photo book "Goze," which traced the daily life of a blind traveling entertainer, "Goze," who walked around the villages of Echigo, Niigata Prefecture, singing shamiuta. Awarded. This book is a collection of photographs showing Sanya, a district called Doya-gai, where day laborers gather in simple lodging facilities. Workers flooding the streets, the struggles in the mountains and valleys in the late 1960s, cramped lodgings, and other scenes in the mountains and valleys of the past are documented in black and white. "I wanted to shoot 'Sanya.' It was difficult to photograph the people sitting on the guardrails, gambling, standing bars, selling bills and hiring people, and lodgings." Signed by the photographer .