Publisher/春秋社

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A collection of works by Japanese photographer Masatoshi Naito. "Chemistry and Science Fiction," "Life and Death," "History: Past and Present," "Photography and Folklore." The world and ideas that Masatoshi Naito has explored as his motifs are fundamental in a way, yet incredibly creative and expansive and derivative. His unique stance of capturing the visible world with a camera and the invisible world through folklore, and the fact that the objects he has depicted contain many historical and cultural elements of Japan, may be the reason why he continues to receive high praise both domestically and overseas. This book is one of Masatoshi Naito's masterpieces, along with "Oba" and "Tokyo," and is the winner of the Domon Ken Award. Since his first visit to "Tono" in the early 1970s, he was inspired by Kunio Yanagita's "The Tales of Tono" and became obsessed with its mysterious charm, and continued to photograph the otherworld where primordial landscapes, life, and death coexist. This work is divided into three parts, beginning with "The Living" which depicts people's lives and landscapes, "The Dead" which focuses on portraits of deceased people in their homes, and "The Gods" which features statues of gods and Buddhas. This collection of works is full of the charm of Masatoshi Naito, such as the use of a strobe to capture invisible scenes emerging from the darkness. Signed .