

“Loveable Ikebukuro, redoutable Ikebukuro”
-DAIDO MORIYAMA
(Experts from the original text of Record No.26)
Daido Moriyama’s primal subject was in Shinjuku, but t hen he accidentally struck into a street snapshot the he took at Ikebukuro while he was walking around the city, ignited the passion to shoot more of this town … .starting at West Ikebukuro where he was living for the past 10 years.
The scent of the streets of Shinjuku and Ikebukuro are not the same, even in a smiler Terminal Station which locates at the center of both. The heatwave and t he impact steaming up from the people residing deep inside the town. This is Daido Moriyama’s Ikebukuro Street Vision that he spent 1 year to accomplish.
Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Moriyama Daido Photo Foundation

