Japanese film director, Naomi Kawase gave birth to her first son on 24th of April 2004 in Nara prefecture.
Shunji Dodo, formerly her teacher at Visual Arts of Osaka, witnessed by photographing the moment of her delivery.
In the book Dodo captured most primitive and touching moment of birth as it was.
‘Ha-Ha’ means mother in Japanese.
This book is a collaboration work of Kawase and Dodo, in which they try to depict human life innately.
Several Photographs of seasonal events and cherry blossoms in Nara, the city with long history and traditional culture, were included, too.
The entire book is designed with Japanese traditional manners: pages are double leaved and Nara-Zarashi (traditional hemp cloth) is used for binding and the slip case.
