Tokyo on the brink of sanity, Kuruoshii to Tokyo | Yoshio Mizoguchi | Sokyusha 2022 [SIGNED]

4to, hardcover. Limited to 500ex.

In this series, Yoshio Mizoguchi portrays Tokyo between the end of the 1980s, when the effects of the bursting of the economic bubble began to be evident, and the 2000s. From the photographs collected in this volume, the lust and anxiety that pervades that period shines through, between eroticism and ordinariness.

“In Shinjuku in the 1990s, young women blithely went from buying deli takeout in the popular food markets in the basement of a department store to waltzing into unauthorized sex ships. By night, herds of wandering men filtered in and out.” - from Yoshio Mizoguchi’s afterword