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In issue 282 of the Nikkor Club newsletter, 'THE AWARD WINNER', I was interviewed by photography critic Kenji Takazawa!
Thank you for asking me about everything from my beginnings as a photographer to my future projects.
08.11.2025 04:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
While cleaning out my childhood home, toys I used to play with as a kid keep turning up, and I can't seem to make any progress.
Only now do I realize I was a typical Japanese child.
18.09.2025 14:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tidying up my childhood home, nostalgic toys keep surfacing and hindering progress.
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While cleaning out my childhood home, toys I used to play with as a kid keep turning up, and I can't seem to make any progress.
Only now do I realize I was a typical Japanese child.
16.09.2025 23:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Riding the first train in a while, I got to see a different view and felt like I gained something priceless. On the Hankyu Railway.
16.09.2025 10:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Akiyoshi Miyake "Descendants of Mitochondrial Eve"
2025 Apr. 29(Tue)～May 10(Sat)
galerie16(Kyoto)
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09.05.2025 12:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Maki Hayashida "Silent Echoes of the Cedar"
2025 Apr. 12(Sat)～May 11(Sun)
hakari contemporary(Kyoto)
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Satoru Watanabe × 2B or not 2B 「 × BANDED 」
2025 May 1(Thu)～May 11(Sun)
gallery NISHIRI(Kyoto)
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08.05.2025 10:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tamaki Yoshida "Echoes from the Soil"
2025 Apr. 12(Sat)～May 11(Sun)
TIME'S(Kyoto)
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08.05.2025 10:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Comuromiho "Wander the impermanence"
2025 May 3(Sat)～May 11(Sun)
zuirinin(Kyoto)
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07.05.2025 22:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Naoyuki Ogino "Mother-Sea-of-Colors – The Shore of Kyo-yaki"
2025 Apr. 12(Sat)～May 11(Sun)
Gojozaka-Shimizu(Kyoto)
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07.05.2025 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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IWANAMI Yuki "FIRE BIRD"
2025 Apr. 12(Sat)～May 11(Sun)
NOHGA HOTEL KIYOMIZU(Kyoto)
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06.05.2025 08:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hsing-Yu Liu "My Parents and I"
2025 Apr. 12(Sat)～May 11(Sun)
Gallery SUGATA(Kyoto)
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TOKITSU Takeshi "BEHIND THE BLUE"
2025 Apr. 4(Sat)～May 11(Sun)
Horikawa Oike Gallery(Kyoto)
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05.05.2025 08:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Eric Poitevin "The Space Between"
2025 Apr. 12(Sat)～May 11(Sun)
Ryosokuin Zen Temple(Kyoto)
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04.05.2025 11:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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IWAHASHI Yuka "To The Light Of My Roots"
2025 Apr. 11(Fri)～May 18(Sun)
PURPLE(Kyoto)
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04.05.2025 11:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New Year's Day is the time of the Tondo-san festival. Applying the resulting charcoal to your face is for good health. When I was able to have my face painted in an area I had visited many times for photography in Okuizumo, it was like being included in a group.
From my photobook ‘x elements かぜとつちと’
27.01.2025 08:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One more of my favorite spreads from the photo book “x elements かぜとつちと” (published by Akaaka). Hanachozu and Kagura mask. The bearers of festivals and folk performing arts are not artists or specialists, but ordinary people.
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22.01.2025 11:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Another one of my favorite spreads from the photo book, “x elements かぜとつちと” (published by Akaaka). Iron crystals (tama-hagane made from tatara) and water crystals (snowflakes). In the Unnan Okuizumo region, human activity and the richness of nature coexist.
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20.01.2025 12:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of my favorite spreads from the photo book “x elements かぜとつちと” (Akaaka). The left image shows a persimmon that fell in the garden of an abandoned house and was bitten by a beast, and the right image is a scene from when I was allowed to accompany a wild boar hunting trip into the mountains.
19.01.2025 09:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is a wild rabbit that is not easily seen in the city. Taken with an infrared camera installed in an abandoned house.
From the photo exhibition “x elements / Earth” (Nikon Salon, September 2024)
19.01.2025 08:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A wild boar was found with a leg partially missing. It is said that this is because it was caught in a snare trap and to escape, it tore off or bit off a part of its leg. It seems thin but it will soon get used to it and grow fat.
From my photo exhibition “x elements / Earth” (Nikon Salon, 2024)
18.01.2025 12:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In areas hit by animal damage, farmers often obtain hunting licenses and set box traps. However, it is not easy to catch them. Some beasts play like a jungle gym.
From my photo exhibition “x elements / Earth” (Nikon Salon, 2024)
16.01.2025 01:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was able to set up an infrared camera in an abandoned house and was able to capture the beast gathering to eat berries that had fallen from a persimmon tree in the garden. The raccoon dogs usually have a calm expression on their faces, but..
From my photo exhibition “x elements” (2024, NikonSalon)
15.01.2025 14:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I came to understand that the issue in depopulated areas is not “the decrease in the number of people and the loss of vitality,” but rather the damage caused by animals. The remaining residents are forced to fight against the beasts.
From my photo book “x elements かぜとつちと” (published by Akaaka)
14.01.2025 14:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In order to photograph the beasts that ravage the fields, an expert with damage to the infrared camera said, “Wait two months to see if you get a picture,” but with no difficulty, the boars were in the field within a week.
From the photo exhibition “x elements / Earth” (Nikon Salon, 2024)
13.01.2025 13:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Coexistence is a terrible thing.It's a battle,” said a farmer. Even a stranger like myself feels anger when I see a wild boar ravaging a rice field just before the rice harvest. Of course, the beasts don't mean any harm.
From the website “The Strata of Time”
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12.01.2025 11:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I went to Tokyo for a little while.
03.01.2025 13:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy New Year!
I would like to inform you of my exhibition.
KINO Seido
The Strata of Time II
2025.3.18 - 2025.3.30 (Closed on Monday)
TOKYO BRIGHT GALLERY
Details will be announced at a later date. We wish you a happy and prosperous year. We look forward to working with you in the New Year.
02.01.2025 07:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It was a first visit to the shrine this year, or rather, a belated visit to thank the people I had the pleasure of meeting last year. On this day, one year has passed since the Noto Peninsula earthquake.May this year bring peace and tranquility to Japan and the world.
01.01.2025 07:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
