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A Night of Nostalgia is a collection of works by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's leading postwar photographers. It is one of Araki's masterpieces from the 1980s, and is the product of Araki's love affair with his wife Yoko in his later years, and the collaboration between Araki and Akira Suei. This book was published by Byakuya Shobo, the publisher of the magazine Shashin Jidai, at a time when the magazine was going from bimonthly to monthly, and was designed by Suei. The book is about the activities that took place in the couple's home on the night they watched Tarkovsky's film Nostalgia in Roppongi, and also includes a text by Yoko Araki, "A Novel" (Yoko also had a serial in Shashin Jidai at the time). One might think that the book is an imposition of Araki's one-sided sexuality and the act of photography, but according to Yoko's text, she doesn't necessarily dislike this imposition, but rather likes it, and she also writes about her interest in being photographed. Not only does it depict the somewhat mundane, intense daily life of a married couple, Yoko's text is also meaningful, and Suei's stylish book design makes this a wonderful masterpiece.
