• Yasuhiro Ishimoto (photographer)

View of central Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

between 1979 and 1982

- This photograph shows several notable high-rise buildings, from left to right, the Century Hyatt Tokyo hotel, the Shinjuku Sumitomo Building, the Shinjuku Mitsui Building, the Shinjuku Nomura Building, the Keio Plaza Hotel (also known as the North Building), the Keio Plaza South Building and the KDDI Building, with the Shinjuku NS Building under construction at right.
- Westerbeck reproduces a comparable photograph by Yasuhiro Ishimoto, dated "1987", showing a similar view but with the Shinjuku NS Building in a completed state (Westerbeck, p. 131, repr.).

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 20.1 x 25.3 cm sheet: 27.8 x 35.5 cm

PH1987:0990

• exterior view

signed - by the photographer, in graphite, on the print below the image, l.r.: "Yas Ishimoto" stamped - blind embossed, on the sheet, l.l.: "PRINTED BY / YAS ISHIMOTO [encircling the centre of a medallion]"; and with four horizontal lines across the centre of the medallion numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "22"

Tokyo; Japan;

• architecture

• streets
• building site
• high-rise buildings
• tower cranes
• multiple dwellings

© Kochi Prefecture