At the age of 25, he entered the photography industry, learned to draw, worked as a designer for clothing, flowers and jewelry. He was busy dating at the age of 86, and wrote his autobiography at the age of 97. Go to bed at 11 pm, get up at 5 pm, turn on the TV to watch the Engli

When you enter your twilight years, will you still pick up the camera?

html entered the photography industry at the age of 125, learned to draw, worked as a designer for clothing, flowers, and jewelry. He was busy dating at the age of 86, wrote an autobiography at the age of 97, won the Oscar in the photography industry at the age of 103, and was still holding a photography exhibition at the age of 104.

"Japan's First Female Photographer"

Sasamoto Hiroko's photography exhibition,

is in Suzaka City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

is known as the "Old Oda Kei House" of Prefecture,

came to an end in February 2019.

Now 105 years old, Sasamoto Hiroko still has exquisite makeup, fashionable clothes, and fashionable short hair. Against the backdrop of red-framed glasses, her crescent-like eyebrows and eyes smiled particularly gripped. Her skin left some traces because of the years, but her face was rosy and shiny, and her neat teeth were even white and shining, and she lived like a 23-year-old girl.

Sabuki Hokuko's life trajectory is ups and downs, with many hardships and ups and downs.

But her whole life seems to have an inseparable connection with photography.

Born in the turbulent era

Sasamoto Hiroko was born in Japan in 1914. She is the daughter of the owner of a kimono store in Tokyo. The word "heng" in her name embodies her parents' expectations for her "permanent peace". The girl's Sasamoto Shinko yearns for free expression and dreams of becoming one of the "painters, novelists or journalists".

Sasamoto Hiroko was born in a turbulent era

, but the rigor of working women in the Japanese society can be seen from the written description. It was a period when women would be regarded as a smoky period when they went out to work, so Sasamoto Hiroko's career ideals seemed so inappropriate. The pressure of parents' opposition and the discrimination against professional women from the outside world faced Shinko Sasamoto like a sharp cone.

Entering the photography world

"There are few photographers in Japan who can report news, and there is not even a single female journalist. Do you want to be the first female photographer? Because if you are good at painting oil paintings, you will definitely take good photos."

Lin Qianyi

939, reporter Lin Qianyi said this to Hengzi. How difficult is photography to draw and compose? Hengzi's curiosity surged, "Then give it a try."

That year, she was 27 years old. She joined the newly established "Photography Association", an institution that provides news photos to foreign media, and officially became the first female photographer in Japan.

1950, the Japan Professional Photographers Association was established. She became a founding member and was even invited to the royal family to shoot with remarkable results.

starts from a unique perspective of women and uses the unique composition given by her artistic skills. Under her lens are the Japanese Prime Minister, the U.S. military commander, heads of countries and leaders of mass movements, but there are also many women who are struggling to seek their own independence in the difficult Meiji Showa era, just like her own reflection.

Geisha School｜1951

Professional wrestler Li Daoshan｜1954

She used her camera to witness the rise and fall of Japan in the past century, the Pacific War, the Tokyo Olympics, the economic bubble, the 311 earthquake... She also paid great attention to Sino-Japanese relations and boldly called for peace: "I have many friends' husbands died in war. After we have experienced a terrible war, we should not experience another war."

Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Explosion Memorial | 1962

Antarctic Observation Ship｜1956

Since the day we joined the photography world, Shinko Sasamoto has been exploring this world through curious lenses.

She went to various places to shoot tirelessly, whether it was holidays or nights, she would always arrive at the scene as soon as possible, and quickly washed and printed the photos overnight after shooting.

, especially because she dared to speak in English with foreigners, she was appointed to take a lot of photography work for foreigners. Shinko Sasamoto gradually won the respect of her peers in the purely male photography circle.

Dream Chaser who always maintains his curiosity

In the long life experience, Sabukiko has had several moments of having to leave photography.

Sasamoto Hiroko was 49 years old, magazines that had long published her photography works went bankrupt one after another. For most people, a middle-aged single woman loses her life security, but for Hengzi, it is "no big deal."

1962, she picked up her brush again and opened a clothing customization store to design clothing. With the tailoring skills learned by Girls' Generation and her unique insights into aesthetics and fashion, the clothing style she designed is popular and her business is becoming more and more prosperous.

However, as the large number of mechanized ready-to-wear produced in the market, Hengzi's design studio gradually made a meager profit. So, at the age of 52, she started from scratch and learned flower designs introduced by Europe and the United States. "At that time, I spent more than three times the energy of others to study."

The following year, she published the book "Flower Design Classroom". When the flower design craze subsided, she turned to jewelry design and began to try to learn new skills...

has witnessed many historical changes, changed careers several times, and experienced two marriages. Perhaps the only thing that remains unchanged is her determination to master destiny in the trend of the times and her lasting curiosity about the world.

If you say photography when you were young, it is to prove yourself;

Photography after entering the age of old seems to be to find yourself.

1 return to photography at the age of 271

980, the death of Lin Qianyi, the leader of Hengzi photography, gave her a major blow, and the idea of ​​a comeback began to linger in her mind.

985, when Hengzi was 71 years old, her second husband died of cancer. Hengzi chose to set off again this year and held a photography exhibition "People who illuminated the history of Showa" based on a large number of photos of outstanding women taken by the Showa era as materials. Once the exhibition was launched, its popularity rose rapidly and won a lot of attention, breaking her 20-year silence. In her first photography plan after her comeback, she pointed the lens at people who were doing outstanding work in inconspicuous places.

She also hopes that women born during the Meiji period will still be alive to record and tell their stories.

"In the past, women lived in an extremely harsh environment of male superiority and female inferiority. Even so, they could do their best to make the flower of talent bloom. I think that is very amazing," Hengzi said.

She spent 6 years running around Japan regardless of her age, interviewing and filming nearly 100 Meiji women, and published the photo collection "The Brilliant Meiji Women" in 1992.

"The Brilliant Meiji Women" writer Chiyo Uno

"The Brilliant Meiji Women" food researcher Abe Nao を

In 2011, Hengzi published his autobiography "The 97-year-old Curious Girl", which aroused great response from society.

"I want to do this, I want to do that, I want to do a lot of things, I don't have time to think about age..."

explained this way in the face of people's questions. She is busy all day long and will never allow herself to be lazy.

In the summer of 2013, Hengzi began a photography plan with flowers as the theme, hoping to use flowers to commemorate those friends who have passed away. Hengzi believes that curiosity is the biggest driving force that drives her to focus on photography, and hopes to use photography and photos to share the world she sees with others.

When Hengzi was 100 years old, the Japanese official held a huge "Saimoto Hiroko Centennial Film Festival" for her, accompanying her at the age of 100 to celebrate a grand and complete century birthday.

In September 2016, at the age of 102, she won the "Oscar for Photography" Lucy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Even if I am old, I will not become a dead tree.

at least is a gorgeous dried flower

Now, living alone, Hengzi, who is over 100 years old, can still live his life into a poem. She still maintains a regular routine every day, and has been learning English by herself, truly living until she grows old.

Go to bed at 11 pm, get up at 5 pm, turn on the TV to watch the English speaking program, and after following the program, she will carefully read the morning newspaper, record and edit the people she wants to interview and interesting things she is interested in and recorded in a notebook. Now more than 30 such books have been accumulated.

htmlAround 18 o'clock, after eating my own breakfast, put on my own dress sewn, put on light makeup, and carefully matched it with perfume to officially welcome the new day.

She lets us understand that youth has never been related to age. May we always have the determination and courage to love life, and can live the best self no matter at any stage in our life.

She is already 105 years old and still has not given her photography career a break. She holds her beloved camera and continues to record this era.

Her longevity and her girlish attitude towards life have made many people curious about her secret recipe for health, but she is busy all day long, so she has no time to maintain her health. If there is a secret, it is to always have a strong curiosity.