
Mimasaka
- Publisher
- Sokyusha
- Year
- 2018
- Specifications
- Hardcover, black and white
215 x 272 mm
82 pages
78 images
English / Japanese
Limited edition of 500 copies
Edited by Michitaka Ota
Design: 原耕一
Printing: 株式会社サンエムカラー
Black-and-white photographs of Masahide Kobayashi's travels through the mountains surrounding the photographer's birth town of Mimasaka, a mountain city in the north-east of Okayama Prefecture on the border with Hyogo and Tottori. In the afterword Kobayashi writes that between 2012 and 2018 he drove along these mountain roads, gathering the landscapes of the area on camera: certain places were old familiar haunts, while others had changed so utterly that it felt like the first time he had set foot there. Contemplated through the landscapes and photographs, those days grew into an experience mingling nostalgia and freshness, as if he were continually renewing an old map in his mind.