Otoko: Photo-Studies of the Young Japanese Male

Tamotsu Yato

Los Angeles

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Rho-Delta Press

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1972

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First Edition.

30cm x 23.5cm. 114 pages, black and white illustrations. Glossy papered boards, silver lettering, pictorial jacket.

85 photo-studies of 51 young Japanese males. “..the best Japanese male nude photography book of that time”, which remains one of the high points of homoerotic photography books to this day. Dedicated to Yukio Mishima, the models could easily be characters from his novels, and Mishima himself posing as a Samurai. BERTOLOTTI pg. 239.

Very minor shelf wear and tanning. Minor cockle to first and last leaves. Very minor rubbing to jacket corners. Near Fine Condition.