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"1968 Shinjuku (With OBI)" is a photobook by Japanese female photographer Hitomi Watanabe. Shinjuku was the hub, stage, and battlefield of the 1960s cultural movement. Her legendary photobook, "Shinjuku Contemporary" (1968), depicts the passionate people who gathered there. Watanabe, one of Japan's leading female photographers after the war, became interested in the student struggles of the time after encountering a demonstration in Shinjuku. She was the only one permitted to photograph inside the barricades of the Yasuda Auditorium at the University of Tokyo, documenting them in "Todai Zenkyoto" (1969), and from the 1970s onward, she filmed "Tenjiku," India, over a period of approximately seven years. This photobook, published in 2014, is comprised of photographs of Shinjuku in the late 1960s, which could be considered the origin of Watanabe's photography. The end of the book states that "Shinjuku was culture," and it was a city where cutting-edge intellectuals like Shuji Terayama gathered and where avant-garde films were screened at the "Art Theater Shinjuku Bunka," and where cultural magnets such as Juro Kara's Situation Theater formed, and where "the era was concentrated," also serving as a stage for struggle. This book captures the city's scenes, not only from the main streets but also from behind the scenes, capturing the details of the city. Comes with a dust jacket.