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Our selections are sharply targeted at and divided into the following categories, and mainly cover 1960 - 1980
periods, in which Japanese society has been also involved in the matters of political controversies over the U.S.
War in Vietnam and U.S.- Japan Military Treaty, alongside with all those problems after W.W.II, like still
aching victims of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and KOGAI (environmental pollutions) all around
this small island country. Our photographic heroes have lived through under those periods of time and faced each
individual occurrences of their everyday lives. Remembering such basic facts, we cannot give any doubts and
objections about their outstanding efforts, enthusiasm on photography, and given talents on creativity. (GJ*) 

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Europe: Where time has stopped  /  Espana: Grand Tarde  /  Japanesque  /  Where time has vanished  /  Portice di Luce: Piazza San Marco  /  Humanscape  /  Venice: Nightscapes  /  Marcel Duchamp Large Glass  /  Fifteen Thousand Nights  /  Tokyo: the 50s  /  Man and his Land (i.e. Ohkoku)  /  Pocket Tokyo  /  Stellar Memories (i.e. HOSHI NO KIOKU)

Ordeal by Roses (i.e.BARAKEI)  /  KAMAITACHI  /  Man and Woman (i.e. OTOKO TO ONNA)  /  Human Body  / KOCHO NO YUME

IWAKUNI  /  KAKUSARETA SHINJITSU  /  Hiroshima - Nagasaki Document, 1961  /  <11:02> NAGASAKI  /  The PENCIL of the SUN, OKINAWA & S.E. Asia  /  OH, SHINJUKU!  /  OKINAWA Okinawa OKINAWA  / Après-guerre (i.e. SENGOHA)  /  NIHON  /  I am a King  /  What Now?! (i.e. IMA!!)  /  Ruinous Gardens (i.e. HAIEN)  /   OKINAWA MANDALA  /  Camp: Colorful!, Too Colorful!!  /  Southern Islands

Woman (i.e.ONNA)  /  Scandinavia (i.e. HOKU-OU SANPO)  /  Wien (i.e. WIEN GENSO)  /  Anatomia Barroca  /  Firenze

Bolshoi Theatre BALLET in Tokyo  /   KYOGEN of MIBU

The Last Cosmology  /  The Globe Theater (i.e. SEKAI GEKIJO)  /  Theatrum Mundi (i.e. SEKAI GEKIJO, exhibition catalogue)   /  The Map (i.e. CHIZU, Revised 2005)

Some Day Somewhere (i.e. ARU HI ARU TOKORO)  /  Chicago, Chicago  /  Chicago, Chicago II  /  Eros + Cosmos in MANDALA  /  Moment (i.e. TOKI)  /  Shibuya, Shibuya

Ema Nude in Africa

For a Language to Come (i.e. KITARUBEKI KOTOBA NO TAMENI)

Towards the City (i.e. TOSHI E)  /  Tokyoites 1978-1983 (i.e. TOKYO-JIN)  /  Visages of A Metropolis

Shadows and Lights (i.e. HIKARITOKAGE)  /  Japan Photo Theater (i.e. NIPPON GEKIJO)  /  Bye Bye, Photography,Dear (i.e. SHASHINYO SAYONARA)  / Hunter (i.e. KARIUDO)  /  A Dayfly (i.e. KAGEROU)

Home Ludens (i.e.YUGI)  /  Yohko  /  VIVA, SASUKE!  /  The Strawhat Cat  /  SASUKE, My Dear Cat!!  /  Priest KUKAI and Mt.KOYA  /  Crows (i.e. KARASU)  /  Memories of Father  /  Family (i.e. KAZOKU)  /  The Wind Cat  /  Walking Eyes (i.e. ARUKU ME)  /  Self Scape '92 (i.e SHIKEI'92 or BUKUBUKU)

A Boy called SATCHIN , MAHBO   /  Xeroxed Photo Albums (Reprint)  /  SUBWAY LOVE  /  Sentimental Journey (i.e. SENTIMENTAL NA TABI)  /  Sentimental Winter Journey (i.e. FUYU NO TABI)  /  Tokyo Nude  /  CHIRO, My Love (i.e. ITOSHI NO CHIRO)   /  First Year of HEISEI (i.e. HEISEI GANNEN)  /  LAMENTS: From Close-range/Skyscapes  /  The Banquet (i.e. SHOKUJI)  /  SHUSENGO  /  Tokyo Lucky Hole  /  LOVE by Leica  /  Flowers of Love (i.e. AI NO HANA)  /  2THE SKY, My Ender  /  Sentimental Spring Journey (i.e. HARU NO TABI)

28 Girls  /  Nude  / Olele, Olala!  / Hi, Marie!  /  GEKISHA: 135 Girl Friends  /  A Fine Day (i.e. HARETA HI)  /  Meaning of the House (i.e. IE)  /  IL DOCUMENTO DI VISCONTI  /  Water Fruit  /  White Room  /  Santa Fe

TODAI ZENKYOTO  /  An Invisible Landscape (i.e. TENJIKU)

SHINJUKU GUNTO-DEN 66/73

Resistance (i.e. TEIKOU)  /  To the Village (i.e. MURA E)  /  FUNABASHI STORY

The Japan Village 1969-79 

Apartment  /  Yokosuka Story  /  Endless Night (i.e. RENYA NO MACHI)  /  SUIDOBASHI: Tokyo Dental College  /  1.9.4.7  /  Nail (i.e. TSUME)  /  1906: to the skin  /  SAWARU: Chromosome XY  /  Hiromi 1995  /  Yokosuka Again 1980-1990  /  Endless Night 2001  /  Mother's  /  SCARS  /  Monochrome  /  KIZUATO  /  Art and the Environment (Exhibition Catalogue)  /    Mother's 2000-2005: Traces of the Future (i.e. MIRAI NO KOKUIN)  /  Club & Courts Yokosuka Yokohama  /  Innocence  /  HIROSHIMA: Strings of Time  /  One Days  /  Infinity

Volume 1 (1966.01) - 13 (1967.01)

JOKYO 1965  /  JOKYO 1966 

Provoke Nr.1  /  Provoke Nr.2  / Provoke Nr.3  /  First, Throw out Verisimilitude (i.e. MAZU TASHIKARASHISA NO SEKAI WO SUTERO, including Chapters; Provoke 4, and Provoke 5)

Volume 1 (1969.05), - Volume 10 (1971.12)

Volume 1 (1969.11), Volume 2 (1970.11)

Volume 1 (1970.07) - 3 (1971.01)

Total Volumes Unknown:  ? - 1972 - 1980 (Nr.17)  - 1981(Nr.18) - ?

Volume 1 (1973.04) - 7(1974.08)

Volume 1 (1973.09) - 2 (1974.06 )

Volume 1 (1977.06) - 3 (1977.10)

Volume 1 (1980.04) - 8(1981.01) ,...

Volume 1 (1979.05), 4 (1982.06) 

Volume 1 (1980.12) - 12 (1986.01)

Volume 1 (1981.09), 2 (1981.11) ,...

Volume 1 (1984.01),...

Volume 1 (1985) ...8(1988)... 10(1988), 11(1989)...

Rivers, its shadow of shadows

Nadia (i.e. MORI NO NINGYOKAN)

Self and Others  /  Childhood (i.e. YOHNEN NO TOKI)

Soul and Soul (i.e.NAGARE  NO UTA) /  Mind Games (i.e. TENMAKU NO MACHI)  /   The Light that has lighted the World  /  Street Shuffle (i.e. YUME NO HASHIRI)  /  1990<1992: SHABA ASOBI  /  The Ship of Fools  /  Durasia  /  Finish Dying (i.e. SHURA NO TANI)

ZOKUSHIN  /  Counting Grains of Sand  /  Hiroshima  /  AOI HANA: Tokyo Dolls  /  JINGU TO ISEJI

FUSHI KADEN  /  WAGA TOKYO

The Anemophilous (i.e. FUBAIKA) /   Strippers' Portraits  (i.e. SUTORIPPAA ZUKAN)   /   MANDALA ZUKAN

New York  /  Photo Mail from Okinawa  / Photo Mail from Tokyo  /  A.D. 1991  /  Shinjuku '79  /  Invisible City 1989

ECCE HOMO (i.e. O-TACHI NO SHOZO)  /  YA-CHIMATA (i.e. O-TACHI NO KAIRO)