Tokyo Megacity. Donald Richie

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      Sararimen relax after work at a pub under the train tracks in Yurakucho. PAGE 6 Graphically-illustrated coin lockers reflect the obsessive anime tastes prevalent in Akihabara.

      An 1833 Hokusai print depicting the historic Nihonbashi Bridge and Mt. Fuji serves as a construction-site wall mural in the Nihonbashi district. PAGE 1 A window-washing team hangs suspended over the city at the St. Luke Tower in the Tsukiji district.

      A young couple in traditional kimono relax at Sumida River Terrace in Asakusa, with a view of the distinctive skyline including Tokyo Skytree and the Asahi Breweries Headquarters on the east bank.

       TOKYO

       megacity

      BY DONALD RICHIE PHOTOGRAPHY BY BEN SIMMONS

       “This text is dedicated to the memory of Edward G. Seidensticker (1921–2007), the finest of Tokyo’s chroniclers and the one who loved Tokyo best. He once said that the very shape of Tokyo ensured its many qualities. It is this shape that the text seeks to show, words in the shape of a city.”—Donald Richie.

       “These photographs are dedicated with the greatest respect to Donald Richie, Tokyo’s esteemed ambassador of art and cultural authority for more than sixty years.”—Ben Simmons.

      We wish to sincerely thank Eric Oey, June Chong, Chan Sow Yun, Katharine Markulin Hama, Julia Nolet, Tim Porter, Yuri and Takuji Yanagisawa, Kathryn Gremley, Reina Ogawa, Aya!, Keiko Odani, Rie, Rika, & Tsuneko Nishimura, Ayako Ito, Rieko Eto & “Nagai,” Shoi, Colleen & Oshin Sakurai, Deborah Collier, Rebecca Stockwell, Sarah Moon, Sarah Stuart Auman, Yoko Yamada, and Leza Lowitz for their kind support and invaluable encouragement.

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      Copyright © 2019 by Donald Richie and Ben Simmons

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Richie, Donald.

      Tokyo: megacity/Donald Richie, text; Ben Simmons, photographs.

      176 p.: col. ill.; 32 cm.

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN 978-4-8053-1556-9 (hardcover)

      1. Tokyo (Japan)--Pictorial works. 2. Tokyo (Japan)--Civilization. I. Richie,

      Donald, 1924- II. Title.

      DS896.35.S58 2010

      952’.135--dc22

      2009047760

      ISBN 978-1-4629-0847-9

      (previously published under Isbn 978-4-8053-1288-9)

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       CONTENTS

       A CITY LIKE NO OTHER

       THE IMPERIAL PALACE

       THE LOW CITY

       ASAKUSA

       UENO

       AKIHABARA

       YANAKA

       KANDA

       FUKAGAWA

       TSUKIJI AND TOYOSU

       NIHONBASHI

       MARUNOUCHI

       THE MID CITY

       GINZA

       HIBIYA

       SHIMBASHI

       ODAIBA

       SHINAGAWA

       HAMARIKYU

       RIKUGIEN

       THE HIGH CITY

       ROPPONGI

       AOYAMA

       AKASAKA

       YOYOGI

       OMOTESANDO

       HARAJUKU

       EBISU

       SHIBUYA

       SHINJUKU