This work was first printed in the February 1987 issue of Shashin Jidai magazine (published by Byakuya-Shobo). According to Moriyama's text that accompanied the work, sometime during the fall of 1986 he drove to the area of Higashiyama hot spring in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, wanting to see autumn foliage, and photographed a bathroom of the Japanese-style inn where he stayed. The close up of the bathroom tiles is the perfect expression of Moriyama's gut-level sensitivity, reflecting the consistent basis of his work from the 1980s until today.