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Araki acted as both a participant and a fly-on-the-wall, photographing the sex workers, the clients, the neon-lit streets, and the claustrophobic interiors of these establishments. The book is a time capsule of a specific subculture in Tokyo before the economic bubble burst and before the internet changed the sex industry forever.

: It captures a period of unregulated "bacchanalia" in Shinjuku just before the 1985 New Amusement Business Control and Improvement Act curtailed these establishments. : Features over 800 photographs araki tokyo lucky hole pdf

Original prints have become high-value collector's items. Araki acted as both a participant and a