Toshio Shibata: Prefectures

The work of Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata was unknown to me until recently when I had the pleasure of viewing one his large-scale photographs up close and personal, pulled from the MFA’s collection here in Boston. His black and white images of “Prefectures” are beautifully seen.

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Yunotani Village, Niigata Prefecture, 1989
© Toshio Shibata

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Ootaki Village, Nagano Prefecture, 1996
© Toshio Shibata

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Shiratori Town, Gifu Prefecture, 1995
© Toshio Shibata

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Honkawane Town, Shizuoka Prefecture, 1997
© Toshio Shibata

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Hinoemata Village, Fukushima Prefecture, 1996
© Toshio Shibata

See more of Toshio’s work, including images from his other projects American Images, Polaroid Type 55, Japanese Landscapes, Hinohara Village, Tokyo and Orientalism, right here.