sentences:  It extends his experimentation with oblique and metaphorical self-expression in the "A Play" photo essays of the early '70s – especially "Natsu no nikki" [Summer Journal] of December 1972 and "Fuyu no nikki" [Winter Journal] of June 1973.Indeed, Fukase's original title for the series was "Tonpokuki" or "Winter Journal".The photographs of ravens and other rather bleak subjects that constitute "Karasu" were taken in Hokkaido, Kanazawa, and Tokyo.