“Kitakami River 1958–2005” is the latest installment in Shoko Hashimoto’s long-term photographic record of life around his hometown of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, in Japan’s Tohoku region. Expanding his focus beyond Ishinomaki itself, the series traces the Kitakami River from its source at the Mido Kannon temple to its estuary in Ishinomaki, capturing scenes and landscapes, many now lost to time, along its course. Through black-and-white and color photographs, Hashimoto (b. 1939) documents the transformations from the postwar years through Japan’s period of economic growth to the post-Bubble era of the late 1990s and early 2000s with immediacy and warmth.