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Moriyama’s Kabukicho lounge singer girlfriend love story — Nagisa Review @Japan Exposures


Review by John Sypal @Japan Exposures


So the other day at Sokyusha, the preeminent photo book publisher in Tokyo, I surprised myself by purchasing a copy of Moriyama’s recent book Nagisa. As I flipped through it, from behind the counter Ota-san, the shop owner, mentioned that this collection is simply of Moriyama’s current love interest, a kabukicho & kayokoku singer named Yoko Nagisa. While my photography book collection might be lean on Daido Moriyama, books featuring lovers or wives of Japanese photographers are well represented. Looking at it in the context of such a book it was doubly interesting.

Yoko. What else could her name be but Yoko? 

Daido Moriyama: Nagisa. Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Tokyo 2010