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"Tokyo View" is a collection of works by Hiroo Kikai (1945-2020), one of Japan's leading photographers after the war. Hiroo Kikai, a photographer who devoted his life to portraiture, passed away in October 2020. Asakusa has been a lifework for more than 40 years since the 1970s. From morning till night, I stood in a corner of the precincts, waiting for the "people with a strong presence" that Kikai felt, and captured a total of more than 1000 unknown people in the camera. I have tattoos, I have some physical disabilities, I am homeless. .. We have taken people who are afraid to stare at them from the front, and have elegantly portrayed the essence of human beings, their shame and the kindness hidden in the depths of their hearts. The beauty and preciousness of human beings is depicted only by the sincere humanity of the photographer rather than the photographer. It is conceivable that Kikai's work of searching for the subject and capturing it in the camera was like a spiritual training that warned and regulated his own heart. This book is a collection of "Street Corner Portraits" that Kikai continued to take as a life work in parallel with portrait photography, and consists of works selected from the illustrations that Hasselblad has taken for nearly 40 years. Large format. Limited to 800 copies.