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"Showa Strip Travelogue" is a collection of records by Japanese editor Tetsuhiko Sakata (1976-). Sakata, who has previously shed light on disappearing landscapes and cultures such as local horse racing and bonnet buses, focuses in this book on strip theaters remaining in hot spring resorts. In the 1960s, there were hundreds of these theaters throughout Japan, but by around 2010, their numbers had drastically decreased. Smaller theaters in particular, such as Nude New Lucky in Misasa, Pink-za in Ito, and Hayama Theater in Kaminoyama, were quietly disappearing while retaining traces of their former glory. This book traces these places with photographs and travelogues, recording them as spaces where time has accumulated. It also includes early materials by Keiichi Hirooka, and photographs, text, and blurbs by Yoshiichi Hara, capturing the memory of strip culture in a multi-layered way. It is a book that quietly conveys the relationship between entertainment and place, and the atmosphere of disappearing places.
