Publisher/Zen Foto Gallery

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"Goze Asahigraph Reprint" is a photo collection by Japanese photographer Shoko Hashimoto. Born in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture in 1939, he began his career as a photographer in the 1960s. Shoko Hashimoto is one of Japan's leading postwar photographers, capturing the good old culture and original scenery of Japan that is being forgotten in modern times, such as "Kitakami River" and "Nishiyama Onsen", and is also famous for his portraits of famous people such as Choji Murata and Hideo Nomo, titled "Men's Faces". This book is a new photo collection of "Goze" works photographed by Hashimoto that were published in the weekly magazine "Asahigraph" in 1970 and 1973. A documentary that follows the daily life of "Goze", a blind traveling entertainer who traveled the villages of Echigo, Niigata Prefecture, singing shamisen. Furthermore, in 1974, the photo book "Goze" was published by Norasha, a publishing company led by Kitai Kazuo, which published many classic documentaries of that decade.