Number 19 in the collection published by Asahi Sonorama. The spine is faded from prolonged storage with exposure to sunlight, a fairly common condition in some volumes of this collection.
 
Psalm is a photobook by Japanese photographer Katsuji Fukuda, who had been active since before the war, alongside Ihei Kimura and Ken Domon. Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, he moved to Tokyo, worked for Olympus and later relocated to Kansai. He worked on the celebrated photography magazine Hakuyo, led by Hakuyo Fuchigami, which contributed to the emergence and development of modern photographic art.