When he was caught in a snowstorm, photographer Eiji Ohashi told The Japan Times, he relied on the glow of surrounding vending machines or jihanki to find his way home. Inspired by the light of these “modern-day Buddhist jizō effigies,” he set out to visually capture the machines as gratitude for his safety, the results of which he published in an eagerly anticipated tome.
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