Atmosphere | Takeshi Tokitsu | Self published 2025 [SIGNED] Shufu to seikatsu refers to flowers offered to

refers to flowers offered to the dead and symbolically connects the living and the dead

CRTs have disappeared from recycling sites

refers to how migratory birds disappear far away in the clouds as they return to the north in springtime

Shinoyama combines the journalistic and the personal into a unique and highly subjective vision of postwar Japan in one of his masterpieces

it's a proud land of wild beauty

Atmosphere | Takeshi Tokitsu | Self published 2025 [SIGNED] Shufu to seikatsu refers to flowers offered toIn 2025, Japan will mark 80 years since its defeat in the war and the 100th anniversary of the Showa era. The turbulent Showa era, marked by war and defeat, rapid economic growth, and a bubble economy, has seen a gradual transition from the peaceful "postwar" era to the Heisei and Reiwa eras. The pressure to conform and totalitarianism that surfaced with each society shaking event such as: the death of Emperor Showa, the Great East Japan Earthquake,