Ayumi Nabe
Hotel Mejiro Emperor
Published by Tokyo Kararasha, 2024
Size: 15x21cm
Softcover
Languages: Japanese and English
"Among the 350 Love Hotels I have visited so far, I have chosen for this book those that were designed during the Showa era, from the 1960s to the 1980s. ". This book by Ayumi Nabe can be read as a classic photography book as well as a fun and wacky encyclopedia of active and abandoned Japanese Love Hotels. By inventorying all these places as kitsch as they are openly extravagant, the photographer opens a door to all these rooms that contain a major part of Japanese culture, although less accessible to Westerners, namely the sexuality of this archipelago.