The Okuhida: The origin of my landscape photography lies in the mountainous scenery of Okuhida that I viewed daily in my early boyhood days. Mountainous scenery is the scenery of my downtown to me as like downtown in snapshot is to a photographer who was born in a city. I know from experience that beneath the surface beauty of the mountain, there lie issues such as severity of living rather than adventure, fear coming from the absolute silence and darkness and anxiety for depopulation and aging.
