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Photobook of Japanese photographer Masaaki Kasuga "Tokyo 40 years ago, 1963 to 1966-Masaaki Kasuga's Tokyo". Masaaki Kasuga, a legendary photographer who died at the young age of 46 in 1990. Yasuhiro Ishimoto, who studied at the Tokyo College of Photography, which was founded by Koen Shigemori and was a lecturer at the time, said, "Photographs do not necessarily have to be art. Impressed by the words, "It can also be an art," he is a photographer who continued to take the city before and after the Tokyo Olympics under the theme of "city and human beings" advocated by Koen Shigemori at that time. It is said that many photographers, including Mitsugu Onishi and Osamu Kanemura, who served as assistants, were greatly influenced by the number of plates cut out with their outstanding aesthetic eyes and cool eyes. This book is a collection of works published in 2006 with the cooperation of Motoi Tsuda, who is in charge of managing the archive, and is a valuable book that introduces the whole picture of Masaaki Kasuga with detailed biographical texts.