In Ametsuchi, Kawauchi brings together images of distant constellations and tiny figures lost within landscapes, as well as photographs of a traditional style of controlled-burn farming (yakihata) in which the cycles of cultivation and recovery span decades and generations. She investigates in this book the connection between dreams and reality; 'I consider the beginning of things.' For this book a dream was quite literally the start of this project. A dream had let her to Aso, a place where they do controlled burning on fields to prepare for planting, in the south of Japan. Her images of the fires are very recognisable and almost look like paintings.