The Arts

A CERTAIN FAMILY STORY

Introduction

I was born in 1964 and had a father who loved photography. After he passed away, I found among his belongings a large number of photo albums and his diary. In them were photographs of my childhood days with my family, along with the diary entries that accompanied them.

The Instagram “Showa Family” @shouwanokazoku, where the editor, Narito Tanaka, converted the black-and-white photos to color and posted them, has many devoted followers of the same generation who grew up in the Showa era and many young followers of today’s child-rearing generation who are moved byoverlaping with the memories of their own family members.
This book is a collection of photographs of a “Showa family,” re-edited and composed together with the father’s diary that accompanies the album.
It is not just a nostalgic look back at the Showa era. It is a book that gives people living today a moment to think about their families and loved ones, looking back and overlapping with their own lives.

size: 148×180mm
pages: 160
binding: paper back
price: JPY2200
release date: 2023/09/25

Info

Category:The Arts
Author:Kouzaburo Tanaka & Naruto Tanaka
Publisher:TWO VIRGINS Co., Ltd.
Rights Contact:Hiromi Koizumi
Email:koizumih@twovirgins.jp
ISBN:978-4-910352-75-6