A second edition that brings back one of the most sought-after photobooks of the late Yoshiichi Hara (1948-2019). Originally published in 2013, Tokoyo no Mushi (Everlasting Insect) weaves a strange, dark atmosphere as Hara captures an urban world through the perspective of insects. Fascinated by the story of a god-like everlasting insect he stumbled upon in a translation of the Nihon Shoki, one of the oldest Japanese books, he became so absorbed in the nature and instincts of insects that he tried to adopt them in his photography. In the afterword he writes that small insects die when the summer goes, or sooner, and that these small lives teach him more about the meaning of his lifetime than he could understand himself. The second edition revises the texts and adds a chronology of Hara's major publications and exhibitions. All text is in Japanese and English.