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| Born in Tokushima in 1958, Miyoshi graduated from Tokai University's School of Letters in 1981. Shortly after graduation, he founded his own photo agency -- calling it Rakuen (meaning paradise) because of his love of capturing images of paradise that began on a trip to Okinawa when he was 13. He has since traveled to places as far a field as Tahiti, the Maldives, the Sahara, the Himalayas and Antarctica.
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| Miyoshi has been a prolific exhibitor since his first exhibition in the Nikon Salon in Ginza as a high school student, and at the age of 27 his published work "RAKUEN" received the Kimura Ihe-e Award.His recent works also include Japanese landscapes such as those of Yoshino, Mt Fuji and the island of Yakushima. Some of his works can be found in the permanent collection of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film in New York and the Japan Foundation has purchased 17 sets of his collection entitled "World Heritage Sites in Japan", which comprises 59 images and currently has an exhibition touring worldwide. His recent awards include the Fujimoto Shihachi Shashin Bunka Award (2004) and works from his collection Shikoku 88-kasho (88 Holy Sites of Shikoku Pilgrimage) have been featured on Japanese postage stamps.
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| His latest book “Four thousand years of Paradise: China’s World Heritage Sites” chronicles all 35 of China’s World Heritage sites.
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