Description: First edition, folio size, 41 leaves of b&w photographs. Bright pink satin cover, embossed in gilt. This book is encased in cardboard slipcase that has a few slight indentations (see photos below). Published by Tokyo IPC Inter Press Corporation, 1990.

Condition: except for the few indentations of the slipcase, this book is in very good condition.

Hiromi Tsuchida (1939 -):

Born in 1939 in Fukui Prefecture, Tsuchida earned an engineering degree from Fukui University in 1963 and then enrolled in the Tokyo College of Photography, from which he graduated in 1966. He began his career as a publicity photographer for a cosmetics company and by 1971 had turned freelance. Much of the work he produced in the 1970’s focuses on traditional Japanese life and customs documented during his travels throughout the country. From the late 1970s and into the 1980s Tsuchida owrked on his projects concerning life in Hiroshima after the A-bombing of the city.