’Utsuroi ’

'Utsuroi' 'Utsuroi' is, in the words of Seigo Matsuoka, "a Japanese word used in a very broad area of Japanese editorial culture. 'Utsuroi' connects the "nothingness" of' utsu' (empty, empty, shifting, reflected) and the "existence" of 'utsu' (actuality, reality). Perhaps it is only the Japanese who do not feel a sense of discomfort when they hear that something arises out of nothing. In this work, "utsuroi" is shown through the eyes of a junior high school student. I believe that junior high school students, whose bodies are ready but whose contents are incomplete, go through a period of' utsuroi', or puberty, and become adults who are 'utsuroi'. Junior high school students sometimes refuse to be photographed by me. Apparently they don't want to leave the middle of their change because they don't know what kind of adult they will become, and they are afraid to leave it behind. Having no way to prevent external pressure, junior high school students protect themselves like a chrysalis before it turns into a butterfly. Utsu as a defense and a blank space to change. First, they close down, destroy themselves, and generate a new self. Since ancient times, the Japanese have shifted the focus of 'utsuroi' to spring, summer, autumn, and winter, to flowers, birds, wind, and the moon, and to the human heart. I believe that some of today's junior high school students may be able to see beyond such a Japanese gaze.