Odo Yakuza [2011 - 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING - LIMITED EDITION 1/500 - FINE COPY] de Kusters, Anton - 2011

Zabrozas, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Fine. Zabrozas, 2011. Paperback with pictorial wrappers. First Edition, First Printing. Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies (this being #166/500). 212 pages with numerous photographic images throughout by Anton Kusters. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy showing only hint of shelf wear to covers and edges. From the publisher: "Odo Yakuza Tokyo' is an intimate personal account of a Belgian photographer documenting the inaccessible subculture of Japanese organized crime: the Yakuza. Anton Kusters teams up with his brother Malik and documents the inside of the Shinseikai family, who control Kabukicho, the infamous red light district, in the heart of Tokyo. From funerals to covert training camps, business meetings to full on tattoo displays, the modern day enigma that is "Yakuza" in Japan is shown. The feeling of subtlety and massive underlying tension is present thoughout the images, constantly reminding us that this world we live in is not black verses white, not good versus evil.