This photobook takes you into Kamagasaki in Osaka, the largest day-laborer district in Japan. Its workers helped carry the country through the postwar years. The portraits inside are of the people who live there, men and women who never quite fit the mold, photographed over a quarter of a century.
The photographer was drawn to the powerful pull of the town and its people and eventually moved there. For years he traveled back and forth between Kamagasaki and Fukuoka, the city where he was born and raised. The book collects what he saw along that route. You get a long, close look at lives that rarely appear in pictures of Japan, and the people are shown on their own terms.
The book opens with a line from the German poet Christian Morgenstern: home is not where you live, but where you are understood. That idea runs through the whole collection. If you collect Japanese documentary photography or street portraiture, or if you care about the social history of Osaka's working districts, this is a quietly powerful addition to your shelf.
Published by Bouyousha. 96 pages.
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