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The exhibition "Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey 1971-2017" is still fresh in our memory, and the photo book "After the War" by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's leading photographers, is a collection of photographs. In 1972, Araki left Dentsu, where he worked as an advertising photographer, to become a photographer, and took many black-and-white photographs of "Tokyo" during this period. This book is part of that series of photographs, and contains photographs taken between August 16 and September 3, 1973. The photographs taken a little earlier (1972-73) were compiled as "Tokyo in Autumn," and later, the photographer switched to a Rolleiflex and took snapshots of the streets of Tokyo. The photographs are a mixture of modernized and urbanized streets with buildings and department stores after the high-growth period, and the lyricism of the downtown area, such as old-fashioned shops like his childhood geta shop and tin houses, and you can feel Araki's perspective as if he is cutting out the gap between eras. The bold layout, presented as contact prints, is also eye-catching.