Publisher/春風社

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Kitakami River is a collection of works by Terutaka Hashimoto (1939-), one of Japan's leading photographers. According to Mamoru Miura, who wrote the foreword for this book, ``Some people take photos that stimulate the sense of taste, and others that stimulate the sense of hearing, but Hashimoto is a photographer who appeals to the sense of smell.'' It is said that when master artist Ihei Kimura saw Hashimoto's first work, Goze, he described it as ``a photograph that stinks.'' It vividly captures the joys, sorrows, sufferings, and ways of life of human beings. As the title suggests, this book is composed of images taken in the Kitakami River, which straddles Iwate and Miyagi and is also Hashimoto's hometown. In the 1990s and even in the 2000s, he took pictures using a trailer, and held outdoor photo exhibitions throughout the basin. This is a personal documentary that depicts Hashimoto's origins at this place, and includes the scenery he saw from the cart that his father and aunt used to pull for him.