{"product_id":"shoko-hashimoto-kitagami-gawa","title":"Kitakami River","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis photo book, \"Kitakamigawa,\" is by Shoko Hashimoto, a leading Japanese photographer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnown for his work \"Goze,\" Hashimoto has spent half a century continuously photographing the Kitakami River basin in his hometown of Miyagi. This collection is a culmination of his work, featuring everything from his early photographs taken with a Ricohflex, his first camera in high school, to pieces from the 2000s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat this book portrays is not merely local scenery. Fishermen, horse fairs, festivals, boats at the river mouth, salmon, his grandfather smoking a cigarette, a barber dancing the loach scooping dance, an old woman drying nori seaweed, vendors traversing the riverside—Kitakamigawa, a mighty river, is at the center of a chaotic flow of people's lives, their scents, the humidity, and memories themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Ihei Kimura saw Hashimoto's \"Goze,\" he described his photographs as \"smelly pictures.\"\u003cbr\u003eThis sensation is strongly evident in this work as well, with sweat, salt, smoke, fish, earth, fertilizer, wind—the sense of \"smell\" rising from the images is the greatest characteristic of Hashimoto's photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1990s to the 2000s, Hashimoto pulled a cart laden with photographic panels up the Kitakami River, holding outdoor photo exhibitions called \"Medaka-ten\" (Killifish Exhibition) in various locations. As if tracing the primal landscape he saw from his father's and aunt's carts in his childhood, Hashimoto continued to photograph his hometown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile documentary, there is a mysterious flow of time where reality and fantasy, memory and land, the dead and the living intertwine. This book holds an extremely unique position within the lineage of \"personal photography\" and autochthonous documentaries in Japanese photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Title] Kitakamigawa\u003cbr\u003e[Publisher] Shunpuusha\u003cbr\u003e[Publication Date] November 9, 2005 (First Edition)\u003cbr\u003e[Number of Pages] 208 pages\u003cbr\u003e[Size] Approximately 182 x 244mm \/ 648g\u003cbr\u003e[Format] Softcover\u003cbr\u003e[Language] Japanese\u003cbr\u003e[Title Reading] KITAKAMIGAWA\u003cbr\u003e[Author\/Editor, etc.] \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHashimoto Shoko \/ Author\u003cbr\u003e[Printing] Shinano \/ Printing and Binding\u003cbr\u003e[ISBN] 4861100550\u003cbr\u003e[Condition] Used【6】Good to Average (Slight stains and minor scratches on the top edge)\u003cbr\u003e[Accessories] None (No obi)\u003cbr\u003e[Featured in] -\u003cbr\u003e[Related Exhibition] Shoko Hashimoto Photo Exhibition \"Kitakamigawa\" (Zen Photo Gallery, March 27 — May 30, 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eShoko HASHIMOTO (橋本照嵩) 1939-\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture in 1939. Photographer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGraduated from Nihon University College of Art, Department of Photography in 1963. In 1974, he received the Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer's Award for his photo book \"Goze.\" In the same year, he participated in \"Fifteen Photographers\" (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo) alongside Nobuyoshi Araki, Kazuo Kitai, Takuma Nakahira, Masahisa Fukase, and Daido Moriyama, exhibiting \"Goze.\" His work was acquired by The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe photographs various regions of Japan with his unique perspective, focusing on autochthonous landscapes, people's lives, itinerant performers, hot spring towns, and river basins. He is highly regarded for his photographic expression that conveys even humidity and scents, emerging from his deep relationships with his subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis representative works include \"Goze,\" \"Kitakamigawa,\" \"Nishiyama Onsen,\" \"Ishinomaki,\" and \"San'ya.\" Since 2011, he has continuously photographed Ishinomaki after the Great East Japan Earthquake. In recent years, his work has been re-evaluated both domestically and internationally, primarily through Zen Photo Gallery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u0026lt; Related Figures \u0026gt;\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bunbuku.pro\/collections\/vendors?q=%E3%81%8D%E3%82%80%E3%82%89%E3%81%84%E3%81%B8%E3%81%88%EF%BD%9C%E6%9C%A8%E6%9D%91%E4%BC%8A%E5%85%B5%E8%A1%B2+%2F+KIMURA+Ihei\"\u003eIhei Kimura\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bunbuku.pro\/collections\/vendors?q=%E3%81%8D%E3%81%9F%E3%81%84%E3%81%8B%E3%81%9A%E3%81%8A%EF%BD%9C%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%95%E4%B8%80%E5%A4%AB+%2F+KITAI+Kazuo\"\u003eKazuo Kitai\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bunbuku.pro\/collections\/vendors?q=%E3%81%B5%E3%81%8B%E3%81%9B%E3%81%BE%E3%81%95%E3%81%B2%E3%81%95%EF%BD%9C%E6%B7%B1%E7%80%AC%E6%98%8C%E4%B9%85+%2F+FUKASE+Masahisa\"\u003eMasahisa Fukase\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bunbuku.pro\/collections\/vendors?q=%E3%81%99%E3%81%A0%E3%81%84%E3%81%A3%E3%81%9B%E3%81%84%EF%BD%9C%E9%A0%88%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%80%E6%94%BF+%2F+SUDA+Issei\"\u003eIssei Suda\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"はしもとしょうこう｜橋本照嵩 \/ HASHIMOTO Shoko","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378637041706,"sku":null,"price":4000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0649\/4280\/0938\/files\/0BA5F5D0-C456-4B41-AD25-0FF1EFDFA79C.jpg?v=1779328632","url":"https:\/\/bunbuku.pro\/en\/products\/shoko-hashimoto-kitagami-gawa","provider":"文福","version":"1.0","type":"link"}