Photographs by the Zen monk and folklorist Keisho Okamoto (1937-2024), one of the earliest scholars of Okinawan folklore, who from the second half of the 1960s, before the reversion of Okinawa to Japan, carried out extensive fieldwork on Miyako Island, presented with his grandson, the artist Daichiro Shinjo. The book brings together Okamoto's 76 x 112 mm photographs pasted on ruled notebooks, from villages and islands such as Karimata, Shimajiri, Ikema Island, Nishihara, Kurima Island and Uruka, with sections on culture and activities and on preserving sound and text, a conversation between grandfather and grandson on faith as seen by a Zen priest of the southern island, and essays on his approach to folklore as local studies and on the power of the photographic record.