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Nobuyoshi Araki is one of Japan's leading photographers. This book, "Hadakei," is the second volume of the 20-volume Araki Nobuyoshi Collected Works published by Heibonsha. As the title suggests, the book contains illustrations centered on "nudes," and the cover is decorated by the artist Eimi Yamada. Araki promised her to come dressed like a call girl in the movie "Butterfield 8," and then had her take off her clothes in the style of the movie's story, and photographed her nude. It seems that Araki's nude photography began with strippers, and for Araki, it was not a "nude" but a "scenery" of the body. Therefore, the coined word "hadakei" fits him perfectly. In addition, at the time when it was not yet permitted to make public full-frontal nudes, he would shave his hair or hide it with soap bubbles, and according to Akira Suei, who shared the good and bad times of his photography days, the police officers would laugh and say, "You think about that a lot." According to Araki, it is these strange regulations that give rise to "obscenity." Signed by the photographer .