Journey Through The Past

2020 will be remembered as a year of great challenges and difficulty. Those challenges are not over. Our enemy is still Covid-19. Here in the USA, we are battling another infection of a different sort, a social and psychological weakening of our traditional bonds of trust and cooperation. This secondary infection is more than happy to feed bodies into the maw of the coronavirus for its own cynical and selfish motives.

I can't solve this. I can't even adequately describe it. Nor should I, in a blog devoted to fundoshi. Let me instead wish each of you strong health, emotional peace, and blessings as we close out 2020.

What better way to soothe the mind (and energize the loins) than with the stunning images taken by photographers of the past. I hope to write some in-depth posts about the great photo books of the 1970s and 1980s, captured by the camera shutter of Kurihama Yozo, Shun Kochi, Kenji Kimura, Tamotsu Yato, Kuro Haga, and others.

I also hope to showcase some of YOUR photography, showing off you and your friends wrapped in fundoshi! I'm looking forward to 2021 with you.