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A collection of works by Yoko Tokiwa, one of the pioneers of Japanese female photographers, "Dangerous Poisonous Flowers". Toyoko Tokiwa, the pioneer of female photographers, was called the “red-light photographer.” After graduating from school, she worked as an announcer, but under the influence of Yasuhiro Okumura, an amateur photographer who later became her husband, she became fascinated by photography. In 1956, he held a solo exhibition on the theme of "working women", and among the colorful works such as shop girls, female professional wrestlers, divers, nude fashion models, dancers, etc., the one that attracted the most attention was "Red Light Zone woman". Shoots prostitutes working in Shinkanecho, Yokohama, an area that was difficult for the general public to approach at the time, with a lens hidden in the pocket of their coat. The group of works that captured the exotic streets and the way of life of the prostitutes was published the following year as a photographic essay "Dangerous Poisonous Flowers" that included his own records. A valuable book in which the record as a female photographer and the present and future of working women are spelled out through illustrations and text. In addition, among this book, which has been repeatedly reprinted, this is the first edition published in 1957, which is valuable.