Ken Domon, The Children of Chikuho - Chikuho no Kodomotachi, Patoria Shoten Tokyo; 1960. 1st. edition, 1.st printing run. Thus very rare. Very good conditon. Small loss at the upper right corner of the cover (pls. see pic). Domon Ken, who was a member of the Communist Party, used his pictures to portray the wounds and scars of a disintegrated post-war Japanese society. Domon produced many photographs of children and particularly on the island of Kyūshū where he denounced the misery of the villages in the Chikuhō mining areas. Japan's policies of conversion from coal to oil resulted in the closure of mines and a rise in the unemployment rate with the consequent increase in malnutrition among the children of the unemployed. In particular, Domon wanted to follow the day of two little sisters, Rumie Sayuri, aged 11 and 7, in the Akashi barracks in Chikuhō.