“As you have probably recognised, the picture across the last two pages of this issue shows a young Nobuyoshi and Yoko Araki.

When I met him for the first time in years in connection with some recent business for a certain magazine, it was pasted into a handmade scrapbook he had brought with him. He jokingly showed it around among the staff, and I seized the opportunity to make a copy of it. It is such a magnificent picture of the two of them together that I just had to. It must have been made around the time of his early book Sentimental Journey, and I was totally captured by the impact and the message that the genuine print of that snapshot of two youthful naked people conveyed.”