Tokyo Lucky Hole de ARAKI, Nobuyoshi - 2016

Köln: TASCHEN, 2016. First edition, thus. Hardback. Fine/fine. Lrge 8vo (20.1cm). pp. 37 + numerous b&w photographs (total, 704 pages). Introduction, prefatory essays, in German, English and French. From the publisher: "Araki captures Japan's sex industry in full flower, documenting in more than 800 photos the pleasure-seekers and providers of Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood before the February 1985 New Amusement Business Control and Improvement Act put a stop to many of the country's sex locales. Through mirrored walls, bed sheets, the bondage and the orgies, this is the last word on an age of bacchanalia, infused with moments of humor, precise poetry, and questioning interjections."