These images are from my photo book NANGOKUSHO – ode to the southern lands of Japan- SOKYOSHA 2013.

I set my foot on the land of Kagoshima triggered by one poem book left by my grandfather. Beautiful Kagoshima before the War captured by the poem of my grandfather who lived all his life as a school teacher and also as a poet under Hakushu. Nature has not changed, but on the contrary, the impression of this regional city and lives of people are quite exhausted. Camera captures Kagoshima of today as it is.

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Images copyright Atsushi Fujiwara, taken 2009-2010. All rights reserved.