• Cover of the photobook “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” by Yoshio Mizoguchi, showing a young woman in a black-and-white portrait.
  • Red-toned endpaper from “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” with a Tokyo side street, shop signs and snow-covered roofs in a grainy halftone print.
  • Inside spread from “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” showing a bare-backed female figure with a butterfly tattoo and a young woman standing on a city street.
  • Spread from “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” with a sunlit open space and a distant figure, paired with a woman walking along a tiled Tokyo sidewalk.
  • Spread from “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” featuring a steep view up a high-rise facade and a black-and-white street portrait of a man with jewelry and hat.
  • Spread from “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” showing a couple seated on a night street with a price sign and a frontal portrait of a woman at night.
  • Spread from “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” with a crowd crossing a city street and a woman leaning against a wall near exposed pipes in Shinjuku.
  • Spread from “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” showing a person in a kimono walking along a narrow street and a closely framed image of a woman in lace underwear with hands covering the front.
  • Spread from “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” with three costumed young men in front of vending machines and a group of women in ornate kimonos walking at night.
  • Spread from “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” showing a seated street beggar on a busy pavement and a rear view of a woman walking through a crowded shopping street.
  • Spread from “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” showing a woman crouching with a shopping bag against a wall at night and a close-up of a white lily in a garden.
  • Spread from “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” with a young woman posing with a metal chain by a roadside rail and a portrait of a woman standing against a tiled wall, holding a handrail.
  • Spread from “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” featuring a woman in a cluttered graffiti-covered alley and a quiet Tokyo street scene with a person walking away holding an umbrella.
  • Spread from “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” with a stage performer in traditional costume holding a fan and a child wearing a helmet and bag walking alone down a narrow street.
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Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity

Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity – Yoshio Mizoguchi

Yoshio Mizoguchi
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A black-and-white photobook by Yoshio Mizoguchi portraying Tokyo and Shinjuku from the late 1980s to the 2000s, capturing nightlife, eroticism, everyday life and post-bubble unease (edition of 500).

Hardcover, 27.0 x 22.5 cm, 0.9 kg , 192 pages
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“Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” is a black-and-white photobook by Yoshio Mizoguchi that follows Tokyo – especially Shinjuku – from the late 1980s into the 2000s, when the collapse of the economic bubble slowly seeped into everyday urban life. Across 188 images, Mizoguchi depicts the metropolis in a state of disreality: between consumption, nightlife, eroticism and seemingly ordinary routines.

Portraits, street scenes and quick snapshots move between erotic tension and banal situations, opening a view into bars, underground zones and anonymous corners where an atmosphere of undirected desire, energy and diffuse anxiety emerges. Shinjuku appears as a dense field of urban desires in which the boundary between private longing and public space becomes unstable.

The book contains 192 pages in a 225 × 270 mm hardcover with texts in Japanese and English. The edition is limited to 500 copies and is aimed at collectors of Japanese photography, Tokyo photobooks, street photography and documentary work from the bubble and post-bubble era.

Yoshio Mizoguchi is a Japanese photographer from Hachiōji (Tokyo) who has been working independently since the 1970s, focusing on snapshots and portraits drawn from urban life. In 1990 he received a major Japanese photography award for his “Firefly” series, later published as a book by Sokyusha, and he is a member of the photography group “Baku”. His work oscillates between erotically charged moments and seemingly innocent everyday scenes, closely tied to Tokyo, Shinjuku and the post-bubble era.

Hardcover, 27.0 x 22.5 cm, 0.9 kg, 192 pages, Japanese /English
SKU: SOKY-MIZOGUCHI-TOKYO-BRINK-2022

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Country of origin: Japan

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