| Table of Contents |
| | Introduction / Ryuichi Kaneko | 7 |
| | The Japanese Photobook: Toward an Immediate Media / Ivan Vartanian | 11 |
| | A Note on Japanese Names | 23 |
| | Photography in Print: An Interview with Daido Moriyama | 25 |
| | Snow Land / Hiroshi Hamaya | 30 |
| | Picture Book / Shuntaro Tanikawa | 36 |
| | Someday, Somewhere / Yasuhiro Ishimoto | 40 |
| | Untitled / Graphic Shudan | 46 |
| | Man and Woman / Eikoh Hosoe | 50 |
| | The Children of Chikuho / Ken Domon | 56 |
| | Tsugaru (Poems, Texts, and Photography) / Ichiro Kojima | 62 |
| | Seto Inland Sea / Yoichi Midorikawa | 68 |
| | Yasuhiro Yoshioka / Yasuhiro Yoshioka | 72 |
| | Yasuzo Nojima: Posthumous Works / Yasuzo Nojima | 76 |
| | Minamata Disease / Fumiaki Kuwabara | 80 |
| | The Map / Kikuji Kawada | 86 |
| | Japan / Shomei Tomatsu | 94 |
| | 28 Girls by Kishin Shinoyama, Nudẽ / Kishin Shinoyama | 102 |
| | Sentimental Journeỹ, Okinawa: Araki Nobuyoshi Photobook 2 (Sentimental Journey Continued), Tokyo: Araki Nobuyoshi Photobook 3 / Nobuyoshi Araki | 108 |
| | Japanese Theater / Daido Moriyama | 116 |
| | Europe: Where Time Has Stopped, Japanesquẽ / Ikko Narahara | 124 |
| | For a Language to Come / Takuma Nakahira | 130 |
| | Underground Generation | 136 |
| | Shinjuku Thievery Story, '66-'73 / Katsumi Watanabe | 140 |
| | What Is 10/21? | 144 |
| | Hiroshima Now / Kenji Ishiguro | 150 |
| | Come Up / Tetsuya Ichimura | 156 |
| | Impressive Landscape / Yasushi Sugino | 160 |
| | The Eye of lhei Kimura / Ihei Kimura | 164 |
| | Towards the City / Yutaka Takanashi | 168 |
| | Nadia / Hajime Sawatari | 174 |
| | Teiko Shiotani: Album, 1923-1973 / Teiko Shiotani | 178 |
| | Tokyo 1936 / Kineo Kuwabara | 182 |
| | Soul and Soul / Kiyoshi Suzuki | 188 |
| | Gods of the Earth / Hiromi Tsuchida | 192 |
| | Perpendicularly, (Territory) / Hitoshi Tsukiji | 196 |
| | Self and Others / Shigeo Gocho | 200 |
| | Apartment / Miyako Ishiuchi | 206 |
| | Fushi Kaden / Issei Suda | 212 |
| | River: Its Shadow of Shadows / Jun Morinaga | 218 |
| | Photo Express: Tokyo, No. 1-No. 12 / Keizo Kitajima | 222 |
| | A Town Already Seen / Kanendo Watanabe | 228 |
| | Ravens / Masahisa Fukase | 232 |
| | Index | 238 |
| | Author and Editor Biographies, Acknowledgments | 240 |
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