From what I gather, there was text in the original 1972 book-- a conversation between Daido and Takuma Nakahira.
There's no text in the 2006 edition.
There is Japanese text in the 2012 small-format reprint by Kodansha. I'm not sure if it's the Daido-Takuma text of the original (most likely), or something else.
However, the latter also has this short preface by Daido, in English:
"At the time, I was stuck and overwhelmed in that narrow gap between an excessive expectation of and excessive disappointment in photography. One could say I was just at the point of drowning in a sea of thought about my own photography.
But then, at last, in making this photobook, I had swam to shore and was released from this consuming sea.
I wanted to take photography to its very end and nullify it.
Just as the title implies, this book was meant to be my goodbye to photography.
But the one thing that was nullified was me and photography as though sneering at my attempt continues to be at my side (albeit aloofly so) even with the passage of forty years."
I don't know if the Daido-Takuma text is translated anywhere (I can't find it). But if you're interested in writing by Daido, translated into English, there's Daido's "Memories of a Dog" (book of autobiographical essays), and "Setting Sun" (an anthology of essays by great Japanese photographers, including Daido).