It is one of the photo book series "The lens caught". A collection of black-and-white and colored photographs of Mt. Fuji from the final years of the Edo era (around 1853 to 1867) to the early Showa era. Contains articles with pictures of weather observations, pilgrimages, and villages. This book was edited by Takeshi Ozawa.

The name of the series "Lens ga toraeta" means "The Lens Caught". The series consists of 17 volumes. These books contained photographs of Japanese people and landscapes at the final years of the Edo era or the early Meiji era. At that time, Japan ended the isolated foreign policy known as seclusion and changed from the feudal Tokugawa Shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government.

Japanese photography researcher. He was a leading figure in photography from the late Edo era to the Meiji era, and a pioneer in the study of the genre of early Japanese photography history. He collected old photographs himself and wrote and conducted many lectures based on them.