In April 1987 Michitaka Ota of Sokyusha met Daido Moriyama for the first time to make a photobook, and on that day Moriyama put down a cardboard box with about a thousand prints and told him to do as he liked. Some of the photographs were published in A Journey to Nakaji (1987) and in Dreams of Water (1999); the others stayed with Ota, in a storage box, for a long time. In 2022, learning that few of Moriyama's 1980s prints remain in Japan, Ota decided to place the prints in the collection of the Shimane Art Museum, and seeing them again after twenty years convinced him that he could now give them shape. The thirty-odd years between making and publishing become part of their charm: snapshots of streets, textures and the beauty of urban chaos and, somewhat atypically, plants and floral wildlife.