Capturing
everything from local coming - of - age ceremonies to school life and funerals as well as the surrounding landscape, these photographs are shot through with vitality, pathos and temporal complexity: half - naked children splashing
in a mountain river; the
shocking sight of a small shrine knocked on its side; a poem, scrawled onto a wall, that reads Dete iku mono no / kanashisa o / aa, dare ga wakatte / kureyou ka / Waga itoshiki / yama yo, kawa yo (Oh, who can share the sorrow of the one who has to leave?