Publisher/新潮社

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"Ura Nippon / Japan's Back Coast" is a photo collection by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Hamaya. Hamaya Hiroshi is a pioneer of Japanese documentary photography who has been focusing on and researching Japanese customs and folklore for a long time since the postwar period, and was also the first Japanese to contribute to Magnum Photos. Hamaya was born and raised in Tokyo, a city full of vitality and marked by modernization and economic and industrial development, even before and after the war. When he first visited Niigata Prefecture, he felt the disparity in "time" and "culture". In the 1940s, he traveled along the coast of the Sea of Japan, carefully exploring the lives of people living under harsh climates and labor, and published the photo collection "Snow Country (1956)". The following year, this book "Ura Nippon" was published. It begins with the sentences "For humans to understand humans" and "For Japanese people to understand Japanese people," and describes in detail the customs and daily lives of people along the Sea of Japan coast. This collection of masterpieces, including the masterpiece "Rice Planting in Awara / Rice Planting Women," which can be said to be a symbol of primitive agriculture, is a record of the history of Japanese culture and photography, revealing the unknown behind-the-scenes circumstances of Japan at the time. Title by Munakata Shiko, preface by Kawabata Yasunari. Includes data table.