“Around the middle of the year I got slightly ill and eventually spent some time in hospital, after which I stayed at my home in Zushi. Except for some business and a rehabilitation programme in Tokyo, I spent most of the days that followed walking in the streets and making the occasional snapshot in the Shonan area.

But there is one particular thing about Zushi and Shonan: it is for me a place that necessarily brings back Takuma Nakahira. Now that I was staying there for the first time in years, there were various occasions to reminisce about my days with him, already more than fifty years ago. In the evenings I had plenty of time to read a collection of his reviews.”