Tokuko Ushioda trained under Yasuhiro Ishimoto and Yutaka Takanashi at the Kuwasawa Design School in 1960; she ended up teaching there and archiving the school's output. After a period of street work she returned to that archival impulse, this time turning it on domestic daily life with the series Ice Box: begun in 1981 and still ongoing, it presents portraits of the refrigerators of different households, revealing the lives and the personalities of their owners. This copy, with the original red obi, comes from the first printing of 1996.