He recently won the fortieth annual Domon Ken award for his book Nōsuuzzu: Seimei o ataeru daichi (The Northwoods: The Life-giving Land), which collects the best of his work from the last 20 years.

He was also so fast when sketching outdoors, photographer Ken Domon (1909-1990) told him to the effect, “You finish your sketch before I can press the shutter on my camera.” The man was Shiko ...