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Nobuyoshi Araki, known by his nickname Araki, is one of Japan's leading photographers, highly regarded worldwide, with over 500 photobooks published to date. Influenced by his father, a clog craftsman and amateur photographer, he began photography, and after graduating from the Department of Photographic Printing Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering at Chiba University, he joined Dentsu. While taking advertising photos, he used the company's equipment to explore new forms of photography, and in the 1970s he released sensational works such as "Oh Japan" and "Sentimental Journey." This book, "Himokutei Nikki," is a "2628 Diary of Love, Eros, and False Photography" (from the cover), which ran from 1987 to 1994. The title is a parody of Nagai Kafu's diary "Danchotei Nikki," which is a fitting title for Araki. During this period, there were many changes in Araki's life, such as Ciro's arrival at the Araki home and his separation from his wife Yoko, but the photographs mostly feature women and nudes (indicating how busy he was with his magazine work), and the occasional photograph features cultural figures and celebrities, as well as snapshots of things happening in bars and the town, all accompanied by a brief diary entry about the events of the day. Photographers such as Kishin Shinoyama, Yutaka Takanashi, and Hana Takeda, as well as Robert Frank and Nan Goldin, are also included in the photographs. (Some pages are missing.)