Left: A Chronicle of Drifting, 1949, Kansuke Yamamoto, collage.
Private collection, entrusted to Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography, EX.2013.2.147. © Toshio Yamamoto. Right: Man in a Traditional Minoboshi Raincoat, Niigata Prefecture, 1956, Hiroshi Hamaya, gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009.34.18. © Keisuke Katano
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/japans_moderndivide/
And no, this is not about a reality cook-off show where the cravated judge
eats a bone marrow risotto and then dies of a heart attack*
This is the story ...