At 2 a.m. on a spring morning in 2002, photographer Mitsuhiro Mouri received a phone call from the most famous actress in Japan.
"I think there is more of me you should photograph," said Keiko Matsuzaka, then 49 years of age and trailing a glittering career of film and television work stretching back 30 years.
The day before, Mouri and Matsuzaka had ostensibly wrapped up shooting for a most ambitious project: a shashinshu (book of photos) featuring the exquisitely beautiful actress in various poses, some of them nude, against backdrops of cherry blossoms, mist, ponds, lotus blooms and temples in Kyoto.
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