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"1968 Shinjuku (Signed)" 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, a leading female photographer in postwar Japan, continued to capture the trends of the times with an overflowing curiosity, including her documentary "Todai Zenkyoto" (1969), which she was the only one permitted to photograph inside the barricades of the Yasuda Auditorium at the University of Tokyo, and her "Tenjiku" (1970), which she shot over a period of seven years from the 1970s onward. 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 the book captures the town's cultural magnetism, where cutting-edge intellectuals like Shuji Terayama gathered and screened avant-garde films at the "Art Theater Shinjuku Bunka," as well as Kara Juro's Situation Theater, and where "the era was concentrated." It also served as a stage for struggle, capturing scenes of the town where "the era was concentrated." The photographer not only focuses on the main streets, but also on Shinjuku's back streets, capturing the town in detail. Signed by the photographer .