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"Tokyo 1970-1985" is a photo collection by Masatoshi Naito, one of Japan's leading photographers. After graduating from Waseda University's Department of Applied Chemistry, he worked for Kurashiki Rayon (now Kuraray) for a year before becoming a freelancer. He was struck by the mummified monks he saw during a photography trip to the Dewa Sanzan mountains, and his photographs of "Japanese Mummies" won the Japan Photo Critics Association Newcomer Award. Since then, he has continued to research and explore the themes of ethnology and folk beliefs in the Tohoku region, publishing photo collections such as "Grandma: Folk Beliefs of Tohoku (1979)" and "Tono Monogatari (1983)," as well as writing books as an ethnologist, such as "Studies on Mummy Beliefs (1974)." This book is "The Darkness of Tokyo," compiled over 15 years by this unique photographer who has continued to photograph the dark world of Tohoku. The following is an excerpt from the text: "The deep, pitch-black darkness of the Dewa Sanzan mountains gave rise to 'religion' that gazed into the inner workings of the human spirit, while the glittering darkness of Edo gave rise to 'performing arts' that dug into the depths of the human heart." In addition to the intriguing text "Notes on Tokyo," this is a masterpiece in which the photographer himself handled everything from the photographs, text, composition, title, and binding. The dust jacket is missing.