For more than 40 years until his retirement in 1990, Jiro Kochi worked at Tenshodo, a Ginza business producing and selling watches, model trains, jewellery and other items. A photography enthusiast since childhood, Kochi carried a camera, usually a Leica, on his way to work and photographed Ginza on his commute. After his death in 2010 his eldest daughter discovered the countless negatives and photographs, over 1,400 images that form an invaluable record of Ginza in the Showa era, from the postwar years to the height of the Bubble. As a salaryman himself, Kochi captured the streets, buildings, shops, workers and flaneurs as a native, deeply familiar with every corner and situation.