There are the Japanese.
There are appearances of the life with marvelous charm.
　From masters of the life enjoying the nature to a beam of the youth,
　written up whole of the village with photos and in writing.

　Looking back for two years, the life in Shiiba is the “sincerity” if expressed in one word. Everyone wishes to be sincere, but there is a reality they never obtain their wishes. Why Shiiba can keep its sincerity? It deems not irrelevant to be sparsely populated village where they cannot live nestling up. <From cover belt of the book>

Published July, 2003
Publisher: Hokuto Publishing Co., Ltd.
　〒101-0051　1-8 Kanda Jinbo-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
　No.2 Noguchi Bldg.
　Tel: 03-3291-3258
225 mm × 160 mm 196　pages
\2500　Please　contact the above publisher when you wish to obtain the book. 　 　 　 　

Let’s go to the small paradise
held in the deep mountain.
There is the certain happiness.

The life in Kagamino Valley was full of charm that would not be said negatively, where “left from” the time changed remarkably by the high economic growth. The question came to us if we would expect the change understanding to be lost such charming life.
　We are not sure if the life was only left as its result. But, only in uneventful daily life repeated everyday in this small valley, it seems there will be hidden a secret of happiness which we are seeking of.　<From cover belt of the book>

Published August, 2001
Publisher: Ashi Shobo Limited
　3-1-2 Akasaka, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City
　Tel: 092-761-2895
225 mm × 165 mm 120　pages
\2500　 Please contact the above publisher when you wish to obtain the book.

Fans are waving, and people are dancing.
　The soul rises.
　The feast of the divine and people unrolling at Shiromi, the mountain country of Kyushu.
　The dignified atmosphere covers all over the sanctuary, and Houri* dancing entirely dedicated to the sacred. The triton resounds telling the Advent of Nishinomiya Great Divine, the tense air is more increased in the sacred place.
　The fan in the right hand moves slowly like cutting the space. The applause sounds from the auditorium with a stir, and wrappings as money offering are flied to the mask of sacred all at once.
　The night when I saw the first time the Shiromi Kagura, I continued shooting without feeling cold nor sleepy, thinking there is the original scene of the Japanese religious faith. It seemed for me to see the figure of dancing Houri with the true prayer, to calm the menace of wild nature, and to be granted their earnest wish for a rich take.
(* Houri: Who performs the sacred dance at the place, mainly performed by the chief priest when dedicate a dance to the god of Shinto shrine)

The life in Kagamino Valley was full of charm that would not be said negatively, where “left from” the time changed remarkably by the high economic growth. The question came to us if we would expect the change understanding to be lost such charming life.
We are not sure if the life was only left as its result. But, only in uneventful daily life repeated everyday in this small valley, it seems there will be hidden a secret of happiness which we are seeking of.　<From cover belt of the book>

Haiku: Kiyoko Tsuda
Commentary: Naoe Ito

Published November, 1995
Publisher: Kaicho-sha Limited
　〒810　11-27 Ohtemon, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City
　TEL: 092-771-0132
210 mm × 185 mm 128 pages
\3400　 Please contact the above publisher when you wish to obtain the book.

　Joint work with Ms. Sinko Kusumoto, the late woman Haiku poet in Miyazaki.
Competed with Haiku and photos of “Evening East wind” as a keyword.

Published November, 1995
Publisher: Soubun-sha
215 mm × 215 mm 172 pages
\3500
Out of print