{"product_id":"araki-tokyo-lucky-hole-hardcover","title":"Araki. Tokyo Lucky Hole - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNobuyoshi Araki\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 704\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 7.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 30, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53725951951212,"sku":"9783836556385","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/3019\/6844\/files\/7c00decf23c5c4b08dcc4bc0ab53e07b.webp?v=1778235010","url":"https:\/\/pattansenterprise.com\/products\/araki-tokyo-lucky-hole-hardcover","provider":"Pattansenterprise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}