In 2010 Shunji Dodo began photographing the Sea of Japan with an 8 x 10 camera, and while processing his prints he happened upon a vintage print from his college days, a coarse-grained picture of the young photographer he had been, furiously photographing anything and everything with unresolved anger at the chaotic times. He could not resist looking for more: the prints made between 1968 and 1977, with almost none left from those shot in Busan, Omuta and Okinawa, so he made contact prints from all the negatives he could find and printed them again. Back then he photographed everything he saw without rule or order, as if he wanted to own it all, compensating for immature skills with passion and the energy to act; through the photographs he rediscovered the feelings he held when he took them, sentimental at times, astonished at others. The book gathers these early photographs from the decade in which, as he writes, his later work took root.