Tokyo: Komiyama Tokyo, 2021. First edition. No. 272 of 500 copies signed by Nihongi to a limitation card mounted on front flyleaf. [108]pp.; illus. 4to. Pink cloth stamped in white on both boards and spine; photo-illustrated bellyband; cardboard slipcase stamped with copy number and publisher name on front panel. Very fine; a new copy.
A collection of 126 monochrome portraits of the 1970s Japanese transgender community, as taken in various Tokyo gay bars of the time by photographer Satomi Nihongi, also noted for her documentation of the late-70s British punk scene and other subculture movements. With a brief chronology of the photographer at rear, in both Japanese and English.
