This is an amazing photo book released in 1963, planned and photographed by Yukio Futagawa, a master of architectural photography. This book abstracts various elements of everyday life and attempts to uncover the forms that lie behind Japanese culture. Various forms of photographic material, from everyday objects to architecture, are analyzed, refined, reconstructed and defined. Common elements of East Asian culture can be felt, and there is a coexistence of familiarity and surprise.
