The work by the photographer Hoshino Michio (1952-1996), who loved the nature and animals in Alaska most dearly, is looked back on through approximately 250 photographs.

It is twenty years since Hoshino died after having been attacked by a bear on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia in August 1996. His photographs have an emotional effect on us even today. This exhibition consists of five sections, His Encounter with Alaska, Masterpieces, Links with Life, The World of Mythology, and Hoshino Michio’s Room, through which not only the charm of his pictures of animals but how he fell under the charm of Alaska, what he undertook as a photographer, and the challenges and turmoil he experienced within are introduced.