TOKYO -- I began taking photographs of my east Tokyo neighborhood of Asakusa and the Sumida River about eight years ago, initially to record the changes occurring and the lives of ordinary people in the shitamachi (or "lower city") district.
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Tokyo: Views from the other side
Photographs highlight change and disappearing tradition in 'lower city' of a seething metropolis
Single-story row-house, Higashimukojima. Window baffles and hinged fanlight provide privacy and ventilation. This structure is in disrepair yet somehow fits organically with the neighborhood and the newer but still modest small homes around it. Many similar old residences are fixed up and carry on. The car park in the background was likely another house, with the landowner waiting for the right conditions to build again.
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