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Japanese photographer Hiroshi Hamaya's photo book ``Japan's Back Coast''. Hiroshi Hamaya was a pioneer Japanese documentary photographer who has continued to research and focus on Japan's climate and folklore for a long time since the end of the war, and was also the first Japanese contributor to Magnum Photos. Hamaya was born and raised in a lively, modernized, economic and industrially developing Tokyo, even though it was pre-war and post-war, and when he visited Niigata Prefecture for the first time, he realized the disparity in time and culture. . From the 1940s, he traveled along the coast of the Sea of Japan, carefully exploring the harsh climate and the lives of people living under labor, and published the photo book Snow Country (1956). The book ``Ura Nihon'' was published the following year. The book begins with the lines, ``For humans to understand humans'' and ``For Japanese people to understand Japanese people,'' and describes in detail the climate and daily life of the people along the coast of the Sea of Japan. One of the masterpieces that has etched its name in the history of Japanese culture and photography, exposing the behind-the-scenes circumstances of Japan that were unknown at the time, such as the representative work ``Awara's Rice Ue / Rice Ue Woman'', which can be said to be a symbol of primitive agriculture. Title: Shiko Munakata, preface: Yasunari Kawabata. Data sheet included.