Issue 62 of Daido Moriyama's own ongoing journal.

“'I'm so happy to have my camera!' or 'I'm really grateful that this medium exists!' — these are things that I sometimes say to myself, and while the idea is not new, I recently feel this more than I did before. Now you may suggest that it's an age thing, and you do have a point there, but it's a bit different. In fact, I have these things in mind every time I grab my camera and go out. When I walk around day by day, there is a delicate sense of pleasure that walks along with me as I copy and connect sceneries of streets and alleys. After all, it's this kind of life that I'm living.” — from the afterword