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*This book is secondhand.

This is a photo book by Japanese photographer and photojournalist Hitomi Toyama.

Toyama, who has worked primarily for magazines and newspapers, is known for her commitment to risking her life to see things with her own eyes, such as interviewing female inmates in prison and traveling north and south across Vietnam in a Super Cub to take photographs. In 2009, she published "Women of Vietnam," a massive photo book measuring 4 meters in height and 3 meters in width, which was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's largest photo book.

This book was self-published by Toyama at the age of 20, after she had become an independent freelancer.
It features photographs taken when Toyama's maternal family home was being demolished, and items such as a chest of drawers, baseball gloves, and baskets that appear in the images testify to the fact that life had indeed continued there.