KYOICHI TSUZUKI
LOVE HOTELS
Published by Seigensha, 2023
Size 14.8 x 10.5 cm
Pages 448
Softcover
In the 2000s, editor and photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki embarked on a mission to capture the beauty of a rapidly fading icon of Japanese sexuality: the so-called “love hotels” offering guest spaces for intimate encounters. In this collection, Tsuzuki chooses seventy-three love hotel rooms to profile for their retro decor in all its erotic glory and quirkiness—decor that, for the most part, has since disappeared amid changing times and aesthetics. Also included are photographs of love hotel interiors as they have evolved now in the 2020s.
----
In the 2000s, publisher and photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki embarked on a mission to capture the beauty of a vanishing iconography of sexuality: “love hotels,” which offered their guests spaces for intimate encounters. In this collection, Tsuzuki selects seventy-three love hotel rooms to profile for their retro décor in all its erotic and eccentric glory, décor that has, for the most part, since disappeared amidst temporal and aesthetic evolutions. Also included are photographs of love hotel interiors as they have evolved in the 2020s.