In 1985 Shoshi Okamoto was a student at the Tokyo Photographic College, where he learned from Daido Moriyama and Masahisa Fukase. Encouraged to shoot a lot, he spent the year capturing the streets and alleys of Tokyo's 23 wards. The photographs remained unpublished, stored away in the back of a closet for more than thirty years before he found them again. A time capsule of sorts, they depict life in Tokyo in 1985 in singular episodes and situations, each filled with detail and vivacity. In his afterword Moriyama writes that he was immediately transported to the streets of Tokyo thirty-five years earlier, which spoke to the accuracy and power of Okamoto's portrayal of the reality of the streets of those bygone days. The afterword is in Japanese and English.