Publisher/朝日ソノラマ

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"Tono Monogatari" is a photo essay by Daido Moriyama, one of Japan's leading photographers. This book shares the same title as Kunio Yanagita's classic, which compiles folk tales and legends from Tono, Iwate Prefecture. However, for Moriyama, who was also exposed to the world of the works of Iwate-born poet Kenji Miyazawa, Tono was a special place for him, and he seemed to sense a longing and desire for a "hometown" there. When Moriyama visited Tono for his first solo exhibition in the mid-1970s, he was possessed by this folk tale town, and he took pictures of the forgotten memories and lost primitive landscapes of Japanese people. This book was first published in 1976 after his solo exhibition at Nikon Salon (a reprint was also published in 2007). Starting with color photographs, the book is cut out in Moriyama's characteristic high-contrast black-and-white photographs of idyllic rural scenes and landscapes, provincial townscapes, and traditional events.