Issho kenmei no jidai

Shinzo Hanabusa
Issho kenmei no jidai

Photographs: Shinzo Hanabusa

Publisher: Otsuki Shoten

208 pages

Year: 1990

ISBN: 4-272-62012-6

Price: 55 €

Comments: Hardcover under illustrated dust jacket, obi is missing, 28 x 22 cm, b&w photographs. In very good condition, other than a small tear on the dust jacket on top and bottom of the spine.

Born in Chiba in 1936, photographer Shinzo Hanabusa captures Japan in the Showa era. From the 1960s to the 1980s, in the era of high economic growth in Japanese society, people were at the mercy of the times, but they lived their lives striving for development. Workers began working at home producing electronic parts and migrant workers at construction sites in cities, which eventually led to the decline of agriculture. Young people who were called "golden eggs" left their hometowns to find jobs in faraway cities. The devoted working people of the town supported Japan's high economic growth period. Shinzo Hanabusa's work captures the daily changes in life behind the remarkable economic development.