The Precious Daily Life in Japan. Photographs by Yumiko Tanaka.
Tosei-Sha, 2012. 60 pp., 53 color illustrations, 9¼x8¼".  Signed
copies available to order!  Publisher's Description On March 11,
2011, the earthquake occurred. I was sitting at the reception
desk in thegallery where I work – in Nakano-ward, Tokyo. The
mild afternoon sunlight was shining in through the window.
Several visitors were looking around the gallery. It had been
peaceful and quiet. At 2:46 p.m. there came a sudden violent
quake. I thought it was one of the minor earthquakes that we
occasionally have. But the quakes were getting bigger. Books
began to jump out of the shelves and get scattered around the
floor. Though I thought of running out of the building for
safety’s sake, I could do nothing but stand helplessly where I
was until these long violent shocks subsided. Subsequently the
aftershocks continued, and the train services were badly
interrupted. It was the next day that I finally came back home
in Kawasaki-city, Kanagawa Prefectur