Masatoshi Naito, a science graduate of the University of Waseda, is the author of a hybrid photographic oeuvre inspired by a passion for Japanese folklore and Buddhist teachings. Tokyo reproduces a hallucinatory vision of the city, lightning-struck by Naito’s flashbulb: youth at large, the homeless and abandoned, desolate neighbourhoods. This existentialist work is also a dive into sites disapproved of in Buddhist precepts. Both researcher and photographer, Masatoshi Naito explores Japanese culture through scientific essays as well as the publication of photography books such as Tono Monogatari (the Tales of Tono, 1983), for which he won his second Domon Ken Prize. His work was shown in the 1974 MoMA (New York) New Japanese Photography exhibition.