Edition : First \/ Tokyo \/ Baragaho Sha \/ 1973 \/ Softcover. \/ VG+ Small 8vo, 128pp. Printed wraps. Numerous Black & White plates. Text in Japanese. <\/p>\nPrinted in either 500 or 1000 copies, nobody is quite sure, with half being lost to water damage. During the late sixties and early seventies Watanabe earned his living as a portrait photographer, shooting his subjects on the street and then selling them prints for 200 yen. This book is a collection of shots from the period with Watanabe’s printed annotations underneath- prostitutes, gangsters, cross dressers, night faces, gay men and party goers. The most authentic portrait of an underground world, which Watanabe was himself a part of for many years. <\/p>\n