Post-war Japan experienced a revival in photography in the 1950s; with the appearance of photo-realism photographic materials were once again available, journals were being published and photographers suddenly reclaimed a broader range of subject matter. Hiroshi Hayama, in his 1957 book Ura Nihon (Japans Back Coast), set out to photograph the relationship between people and their natural environment. This paradigm reconvened pre-war photographers and encouraged the emerging generation.

Yoshiyuki Iwase, although a Tokyo law graduate and heir to his family's sake distillery, took this mantra to his ancestral village of Onjuku,...

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