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"1978 Gay in Shinjuku" is a photo collection by Japanese photographer Hiroyasu Nakai. Born in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture in 1955, Nakai dropped out of Hachinohe Institute of Technology and began studying photography at the Hosoe Eiko Workshop Photography School in 1976. After graduating, he participated in the activities of Gallery CAMP, where Daido Moriyama and Keizo Kitajima were also members, and held solo exhibitions. After returning to his hometown, he opened and presided over Gallery Kitaten in Hachinohe, and is also involved in the management of the photo gallery Place M. Nakai Hiroyasu continued to face Hachinohe throughout his life and worked with the Tohoku region after the earthquake disaster, but he passed away suddenly in February 2016 due to an aortic aneurysm rupture. This book is a collection of portraits of gay people taken in Shinjuku 2-chome and Kabukicho in the late 1970s. The unique photographs are reminiscent of the works of Katsumi Watanabe and Seiji Kurata.