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The first collection of essays by Japanese contemporary photographer and essayist Shinya Fujiwara contains a total of twenty essays, mainly describing his feelings while living in India. At the age of twenty-three, he gave up his studies. He traveled to cities, villages and markets in India, experienced sandstorms, witnessed local people's water burials and cremations by the Ganges River, climbed snow-capped mountains with ascetics, and observed the daily lives of ordinary villagers. The India he saw was a hot country. People here did not have excessively abundant material culture, and their lifestyle was simple and crude. However, everyone still had enthusiasm and freedom. No matter humble or noble, every soul lived in the way he wanted. Here, life presents itself as something authentic, with both beauty and ugliness in full bloom, dwarfing all forms of expression.

Japanese contemporary writer and photographer Fujiwara Shinya keenly observes and captures the common problems faced by society during the period of rapid economic development, bringing a warning or enlightenment to readers' minds. In Japanese society in the 1980s, there was a huge economic bubble, various social cases occurred frequently, and the hollowness in people's hearts grew day by day. At this time, Japanese photographer and essayist Shinya Fujiwara ended his thirteen-year journey to Asia and returned to his homeland to put what he saw and felt into writing. The mutual constraints between the rapidly developing economy and traditional culture have resulted in countless people losing their ancestral homes and drifting in prosperous but frivolous cities. The rapid pace of urbanization has widened the spiritual distance between people, making people's interactions with each other become indifferent. The connections between people and cities, people and nature, and people and people have become increasingly fragile. The author uses a writer's style to profoundly criticize various problems faced by big cities in the development process, which makes people think deeply and introspect.