{"product_id":"araki-tokyo-lucky-hole-9783836556385","title":"Araki. Tokyo Lucky Hole","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto. Word spread that the waitresses wore \u003cstrong\u003eno panties under their miniskirts.\u003c\/strong\u003e Similar establishments popped up across the country. Men waited in line outside to pay three times the usual coffee price just to be served by a panty-free young woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Within a few years, a new craze took hold: the \u003cstrong\u003eno-panties \"massage\" parlor\u003c\/strong\u003e. Increasingly bizarre services followed, from \u003cstrong\u003efondling clients through holes in coffins\u003c\/strong\u003e to \u003cstrong\u003ecommuter-train fetishists\u003c\/strong\u003e. One particularly popular destination was a Tokyo club called \"Lucky Hole\" where clients stood on one side of a plywood partition, a hostess on the other. In between them was a hole big enough for a certain part of the male anatomy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Taking the \u003cem\u003eLucky Hole\u003c\/em\u003e as his title, \u003cstrong\u003eNobuyoshi Araki\u003c\/strong\u003e captures \u003cstrong\u003eJapan's sex industry in full flower\u003c\/strong\u003e, documenting in \u003cstrong\u003emore than 800 photos\u003c\/strong\u003e the pleasure-seekers and providers of Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood before the February 1985 New Amusement Business Control and Improvement Act put a stop to many of the country's sex locales. Through \u003cstrong\u003emirrored walls, bed sheets, the bondage and the orgies\u003c\/strong\u003e, this is the last word on an age of bacchanalia, infused with moments of \u003cstrong\u003ehumor, precise poetry, and questioning interjections.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nobuyoshi Araki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Taschen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.90w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783836556385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAraki, Nobuyoshi:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in 1940. Given a camera by his father at the ripe age of twelve, Araki has been taking pictures ever since. He studied photography and film at Chiba University and went into commercial photography soon after graduating. In 1970 he created his famous Xeroxed Photo Albums, which he produced in limited editions and sent to friends, art critics, and people selected randomly from the telephone book. Over the years, his bold, unabashed photographs of his private life have been the object of a great deal of controversy and censorship (especially in his native Japan), a fact that has not fazed the artist nor diminished his influence. To date, Araki has published over 400 books of his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42038266134643,"sku":"3836556383","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_ce7589ed-2d3b-449b-bfa3-6922d24e6d80.jpg?v=1719584058","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/araki-tokyo-lucky-hole-9783836556385","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}