Rinko Kawauchi a Japanese photorapher, lives in Tokyo.

"To be sure, Utatane, the title of her book, means ’siesta’, which brings in the notion of a dreamlike state, and each image in the book could plausibly be considered as a still from a movie about a dream. The presence of a number of animals – insects, seagulls, koi carp, rabbits – might suggest some kind of Freudian interpretation."

                 /Martin Parr, Gerry Badger. The Photobook: A History. Vol.II/