The blues of forgetting the beautiful you. Isao Hirachi Shuhannshinsha/1983/Japanese/210*285*20 Japanese photographer Isao Hiraji's collection of works, "The Blues of Forgetting the Beautiful You." Isao Hiraji was born in Tokyo in 1945, the year the war ended. He was born in Tokyo in 1945, the year the war ended, and went to high school at Waseda University. He joined the photography club there, and after graduation he began working part-time as a news photographer for a TV station, but soon gave up and entered the photography department at Nikkei. However, just as the school was in the midst of the school struggle, he developed an aversion to group life and organization, and began to desire to photograph women's presence and a kind of longing/complexity. Initially, he began working for Asahi Graph and Asahi Journal, and it was this connection that led him to go shooting in the countryside, which began with his early masterpiece, "Onsen Geisha". After that, he worked for Asahi Weekly and in the commercial world. This book consists of portraits of top actresses taken through Asahi Weekly and Asahi Camera in the late 70s and 80s. This is a wonderful collection of works in the style of Yutaka Takanashi's Otsukare-sama, which portrays the totality of a person's personality, and in atmospheric black and white, which skillfully utilizes shadows like those of hot spring geisha.