Treedom: The Road to Freedom

As if looking into long forgotten memories of another life, emotionally charged photography and prose explore an outsider's feeling of loneliness and coming to terms with one's purpose in a journey through the life of leading Japanese treehouse creator Takashi Kobayashi. Takashi Kobayashi who has been featured in the New York Times, as well as many television programs, newspapers, and magazines, examines being an outcast in a rigid society of rules and conformity and finding salvation in the trees. The author's photography and writings, accompanied by the poetry of William Blake, adorn this alternative to other treehouse books. Treedom takes things one step further by describing how treehouse living is a lifestyle and philosophy, not simply a means of making coffee table books. The accompanying DVD documentary is based on a trip he made to Oregon and features a 2006 treehouse making film in Okinawa and Hokkaido, Japan.