TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watanabe,Katsumi
AU  - Hoaglund,Linda
AU  - Iizawa,Kōtarō
TI  - Kabukichō =: Gangs of Kabukicho 
SN  - 097154803X
U1  - 779.2092 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - New York
PB  - PPP
KW  - Watanabe, Katsumi,
KW  - Photography
KW  - Japan
KW  - Portrait photography
KW  - Shinjuku-ku (Tokyo, Japan)
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Limited edition of 3000 copies; Includes an essay in both English and Japanese on "Shinjuku's photographer Watanabe Katsumi" by Iizawa Kotaro
N2  - Watanabe Katsumi was an itinerant portrait photographer working primarily in Shinjuku in Tokyo. The photographs presented here were all taken in the blue light district of Shinjuku called Kabukicho. The subjects in Watanabe's photographs are the prostitutes, street people, drag queens, entertainers and gangsters (Yakuza) that populated Kabukicho at night. The book reproduces 155 photographs taken in the 60s and 70s in the blue light district of Shinjuku called Kabukicho
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