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Araki: Tokyo Lucky Hole
Nobuyoshi Araki
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Description for Araki: Tokyo Lucky Hole
Hardback. Taking the Lucky Hole as his title, Nobuyoshi 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. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: AJCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 149 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1294.
It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto. Word spread that the waitresses wore no panties under their miniskirts. Similar establishments popped up across the country. Men waited in line outside to pay three times the usual coffee price just to be served by a panty-free young woman. Within a few years, a new craze took hold: the no-panties massage parlor. Increasingly bizarre services followed, from fondling clients through holes in coffins to commuter-train fetishists. One particularly popular destination was a Tokyo club called Lucky Hole where clients stood on ... Read more
It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto. Word spread that the waitresses wore no panties under their miniskirts. Similar establishments popped up across the country. Men waited in line outside to pay three times the usual coffee price just to be served by a panty-free young woman. Within a few years, a new craze took hold: the no-panties massage parlor. Increasingly bizarre services followed, from fondling clients through holes in coffins to commuter-train fetishists. One particularly popular destination was a Tokyo club called Lucky Hole where clients stood on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taschen GmbH
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
Cologne, Germany
ISBN
9783836556385
SKU
V9783836556385
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Ref
99-45
About Nobuyoshi Araki
The photographer: Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in 1940. Given a camera by his father at the ripe age of twelve, Araki has been taking pictures ever since. He studied photography and film at Chiba University and went into commercial photography soon after graduating. In 1970 he created his famous Xeroxed Photo Albums, which he produced in limited editions ... Read more
Reviews for Araki: Tokyo Lucky Hole
This meaty block of a book, much like Araki himself, is a legend.