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"Rain (Signed)" is a photo collection by Saku Sawatari, one of Japan's leading photographers. After graduating from Nihon University's Department of Photography, he served as an assistant to Yutaka Takanashi before going freelance. Since then, he has worked as a fashion photographer in many famous magazines, and in the 1970s he made a name for himself by publishing innocent, beautiful, and sometimes fantastic portraits of girls and women, and since the 1980s he has continued to be active at the forefront, mainly in the work of artists and idols. This book is a photo collection published in 2016, and as the title suggests, it is a book that depicts "rainy" Tokyo. The heavy sky covered with clouds, the night city with brake lights and neon lights trailing light, the shadows of people crossing with umbrellas, the raindrops hitting the ground and splashing up, the colorful umbrellas that add color to the grayish landscape... The scene is cut out regardless of day or night in the city covered in rain. The melancholic mood, the sophisticated composition, and the bold blur and blur that are incorporated like abstract paintings. It is a wonderful content that shows Sawatari's sensibility. "Tokyo. Rainy day. A striking new frontier for Sawatari Hajime, who vividly captures the fleeting interweaving of the city and people as their gaze blurs in the pouring rain" (from the obi). Signed by the photographer .