Publisher/中央公論社

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"Children in Japan (Signed)" is a photo collection by one of Japan's leading photographers, Hiroshi Hamaya. Hamaya is a pioneer of Japanese documentary photography, who has been focusing on and researching Japanese customs and folk customs for a long time since the postwar period, and was the first Japanese to contribute to Magnum Photos. Born and raised in Tokyo, a city that was full of energy and marked by modernization and economic and industrial development, Hamaya first visited Niigata Prefecture and felt the disparity in "time" and "culture" first-hand. In the 1940s, he traveled along the coast of the Sea of Japan and carefully explored the lives of people living in the harsh climate and under hard labor, resulting in the photo collection "Snow Country" (1956). The following year, he published "Backside Japan" (1957), a masterpiece that has long been highly regarded as a "textbook of photo books" and has made its mark in the history of photography. This book was published following "China I've Seen" and "Hometown of Poetry" (both 1958). A masterpiece with the motifs of "the four seasons" and "children" from all over Japan. Mostly in black and white, with some color. Divided into two obi strips. Signed . (Included in The Japanese Photobook 1912–1990)