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"Satchin Original Edition" is a photobook by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's leading photographers. He has been active since the 1960s and has published 500 photobooks to date. The first time Araki's name became known to the world was through the "Taiyo Award". This photo award was established by the graphic magazine "Taiyo" published by Heibonsha, and is for documentaries using a series of photographs. The first winner (1964) was Araki (written as "Nobuyoshi" in hiragana at the time). While attending Chiba University, Araki met Sachin, a fourth-grader at an apartment building made of reinforced concrete in Mikawashima, Arakawa Ward. The lively expressions and innocent appearances of Sachin and several other children evoke the atmosphere (life) of those days with a certain nostalgia. "Satchin", published by Shinchosha in 1994, is composed of outtakes from the "Taiyo Award", and this book (or rather the photographs shown here) is literally Araki's "legendary debut work". The whereabouts of the negatives from that time were unknown after they were handed in for submission, but "we have now managed to extract them from old magazines and turn 'Satchin,' which won the Taiyo Award, into a book" (from the afterword).