A Return to Film: Where the act itself becomes the Way

In a world overflowing with images, what remains unseen?

What’s Inside This 80-Minute Read
✅ Four chapters on serendipity, reconstruction, chiaroscuro, and memory:

✅ Photographs shot with vintage film cameras
✅ Companion essays on Yorishiro, Fuji/fūto-no-bi, Gion-Matsuri and Zen chiaroscuro
✅ Reflections on time, presence, and the emotional depth of analog
✅ No jargon — just the essence of why we shoot

This book is for you if…
✔️ You’ve ever picked up a film camera and felt something different
✔️ You’ve missed the slowness of analog in a fast digital world
✔️ You sense that imperfection can be beautiful
✔️ You believe photographs can hold memory, not just information
✔️ You wonder what makes a photograph truly memorable

🗣️ What Readers Say
🧔 Male Reader, 50s (Gunma, Japan)
“This book reminded me of my long-forgotten film camera.
I could feel the air and light of the past. I want to shoot film again.”
👴 Retired Reader, 70s (Tokyo, Japan)
“I read it in one sitting. The prose was like poetry. Deeply moving.”
👩 Female Reader, 30s (Tokyo, Japan)
“The comparison of the same scene shot with a smartphone and two film cameras blew my mind. They felt like different worlds.”
👩‍🦰 Female Reader, 40s (Kyoto, Japan)
“What struck me was how everyday acts of photography became distilled into ‘Unexpected Harmony’ and ‘Reconnection with Memory.’”

About the Author
Norihiko Minato is the founder of Okazaki Optical Research Institute a Kyoto-based initiative dedicated to the exploration of analog photographic culture, vintage lenses, and the philosophy of seeing. Drawing from his personal archive of classic cameras—including East German SLRs and early Japanese models—Minato blends historical insight with poetic reflection.