Shoko Hashimoto is a Japanses photographer born in 1939. He collaborated with Takuma Nakahira, Kazuo Kitai and Ihei Kimura.
Hashimoto has published many books, including recently Nishiyama Onsen (2014) and Undergrowth (2016) with Zen Foto Gallery.
Excerpts from the text by Shoko Hashimoto : [adapted by L'Ascenseur Végétal] "Nishiyama Onsen was packed with pleasure trippers. This healing hot spring is in the Yamanashi Prefecture, on a tributary of the Fuji River. People would come from nearby Yamanashi and Shizuoka, but also parties of local ladies returning from homes in the suburbs of Tokyo and...
.Sold out. Afterword by the artist: "Excluded from the human diet and useless for clothing or shelter, the undergrowth thrives and engulfs human existence. It transforms under the snow, rain, wind and sunlight. Children play Tarzan in the undergrowth or mountain thickets. When the harvest moon appears, they go out to pick the pampass grass. I pushed my...