A journey that spanned two years in and around the Izumo mountains of Japan's Chugoku region, in search of a place that reflects ordinary life among areas less visited by travellers and kept hidden by their surroundings. Rivers, mountains and little-travelled paths leading to small rural villages are presented in black-and-white photographs that follow a route from Shinji Station down to Bingo-Ochiai, a visual pilgrimage of travel and personal self-discovery. In the afterword Akihiko Nariai recalls starting a year of shooting in the winter of 2013 with impatience and irritation packed away in a corner of the heart, crossing passes and descending slopes to small villages in the valleys, and realising that what was being pursued was not beautiful scenery but the landscape that traces the photographer's own passing years.