Gangs of Kabukicho.
Contributors: Andrew Roth (Editor)
Edition: First edition
Publisher: PPP Editions
Published: September 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780971548039
Subjects: Art  / Photography
Description: 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.