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Shiotani gradually reduced his participation in photography at the national level during the 1930s . The last appearances of his photographs in "Asahi Camera" and "The Photo-Times" were in the October 1932 and June 1934 issues respectively. A series of twelve articles by him on techniques for "The Photo-Times" ended in September 1935. Takeuji surmises that this gradual withdrawal was because his "geijutsu" photography was becoming eclipsed by the newer trend of more expressly modernist . In the mid 30s, Shiotani returned to photographs he had taken from 1923 to 1925, printing them with less detail than previously, for an abstract and dreamlike effect. A notable example is "Bird's-Eye View of a Village" of 1934.