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Everywhere we are, we can find a ray of hope.

Let’s see a bright future over dark clouds hanging low in the world.

I believe in our ’resiliency’.

It’s almost impossible for us to defend ourselves perfectly against many different kinds of difficulties in this confused world.

So I think that ‘resiliency’ is a key word for living through it.


The following is an image from my ongoing project "Going Back Up the River”.

I’ve had several trips to the provinces for working on the project last year.

It’s a journey to the older layer of Japan and I try to understand what my own aging means

through the process of the journey.

I hope that ‘aging’ gives me some unexpected harvest.







It’s a great pleasure to announce that I take part in a summer group exhibition 'Toshi - City' at IBASHO gallery in Antwerp. I find it an honor to show my above pictures there with great works by Elsken, Klein, Ishimoto, Moriyama, and so on. Stop off at the gallery while having your vacation!

You can enjoy seeing all the pictures of the exhibition here, too.




The festival was postponed from Feb. to May because of the pandemic. But now it’s close to the opening. The new date is May 18th to 22nd. I exhibit 22 pictures as I mentioned in the previous posting. For more information, click the following URLs.

The festival has suffered from the recent tough situations in the world. From the pandemic to the serious problems of the physical distribution system. My pictures finally reached the festival official in Rotterdam via four other countries, that is, China, Thailand, Dubai and Germany. Besides, even now the officials are faced with a new difficulty caused by the same problem. Lack of containers, which are used as exhibition spaces and symbolize the exhibition in the major port city.

We live literally in a complicated world that stems from globalization. Now there is no incident remote from each of us wherever we may live.

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