{"title":"ARAKI","description":"\u003ch3 data-start=\"42\" data-end=\"83\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"42\" data-end=\"83\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eNobuyoshi Araki\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"335\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eIn Darwin, Araki radicalises intimacy through excess. Photography becomes living, not recording—desire, routine, \u003cstrong\u003edeath compressed into cheap paper\u003c\/strong\u003e and relentless output. The minor books matter most: obsession visible only when nothing is edited away.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nobuyoshi-araki-polart-2009","title":"Polart — Nobuyoshi Araki \/ Red Hot","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"103\" data-end=\"521\"\u003ePublished in 2009 in a limited edition of 1,500 copies, \u003cem data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"167\"\u003ePolart\u003c\/em\u003e is Araki in pure gesture: a book of Polaroids selected and sequenced by the artist himself, edited in collaboration with the now-closed Red Hot Gallery in Paris and printed in Japan by Huboya. The cover, white and abrupt, is emblazoned with Araki’s handwriting — a bold, gestural typography that suggests the intimacy and immediacy of the images inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"928\"\u003eKnown for his prolific use of instant film, Araki used the Polaroid not just as a camera but as a diaristic tool — sensual, direct, obsessive. \u003cem data-start=\"666\" data-end=\"674\"\u003ePolart\u003c\/em\u003e distills that practice into a carefully paced flow of Polaroid works, unbound from chronology, unified by tone. These are not studio images, but fragments of affection, desire, and absence — emotional snapshots arranged with an artist’s feel for rhythm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"930\" data-end=\"1268\"\u003eThe book is both an archive and an object of its own: printed with striking technical precision (by Dai Nippon Printing), it’s an important artefact of Araki’s later period and a testament to his ongoing dialogue with photobook form. A must for collectors of Japanese photography, rare editions, and the fleeting language of the Polaroid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1270\" data-end=\"1289\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1270\" data-end=\"1289\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1291\" data-end=\"1304\"\u003eTitle: Polart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1306\" data-end=\"1338\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Nobuyoshi Araki\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1340\" data-end=\"1350\"\u003eDate: 2009\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1352\" data-end=\"1406\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset (printed in Japan)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1408\" data-end=\"1454\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover with dust jacket\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1456\" data-end=\"1489\"\u003eEdition: Limited edition of 1,500\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1491\" data-end=\"1501\"\u003eSigned: No\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1503\" data-end=\"1537\"\u003eDimensions (cm): Approx. 19.5 × 30\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1539\" data-end=\"1567\"\u003eLanguage: None \/ Image-based\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1569\" data-end=\"1642\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Nobuyoshi Araki \/ Red Hot Gallery, Paris \/ Huboya Art\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1644\" data-end=\"1658\"\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754746380626,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_1.jpg?v=1768338650"},{"product_id":"polart-nobuyoshi-araki-red-hot-copy","title":"Tokyo Lucky Hole — Araki’s Black Hole of Desire","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"120\" data-end=\"728\"\u003eThis photobook by Nobuyoshi Araki, published by Taschen in 2016 as part of its Bibliotheca Universalis series, is part of the Darwin Bookshop because its an affordable classic that documents one of the most unflinching erotic photo-series of the late 20th century — a visual record of Tokyo’s sex industry at its most intimate, raw, and performative. Originally shot in the early 1980s and first compiled in 1997, \u003cem data-start=\"506\" data-end=\"524\"\u003eTokyo Lucky Hole\u003c\/em\u003e explores the underground sex clubs of Shinjuku through Araki’s stark monochrome lens, in a moment just before Japan’s sexual libertinism was clamped down by shifting laws and a rising conservative tide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"730\" data-end=\"1558\"\u003eAraki's project — both diaristic and documentary — slips through the porous line between pornography and photography. Working with full consent from his subjects, he captures not only acts but atmospheres: private encounters in love hotels, mirrored rooms, red lanterns, the codes of costume and submission, the architecture of arousal. Each frame, whether tender or lurid, participates in his signature obsessive project — eroticism as a theatre of life and death. With text contributions by Akira Suei and Akiyoshi Yasumi, this is not just a record of bodies but of a vanishing world, a pre-AIDS, pre-digital, hyper-local scene of commodified desire. Taschen’s compact edition preserves the entire series with careful reproduction, placing one of Araki’s most infamous works back into circulation — unsoftened and unsanitised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1560\" data-end=\"1579\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1560\" data-end=\"1579\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1890\"\u003eTitle: Tokyo Lucky Hole\u003cbr data-start=\"1604\" data-end=\"1607\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Nobuyoshi Araki\u003cbr data-start=\"1639\" data-end=\"1642\"\u003eDate: 2016 (original edition 1997)\u003cbr data-start=\"1676\" data-end=\"1679\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset printing\u003cbr data-start=\"1723\" data-end=\"1726\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover\u003cbr data-start=\"1755\" data-end=\"1758\"\u003eDimensions: 14 x 19.5 cm\u003cbr data-start=\"1782\" data-end=\"1785\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr data-start=\"1802\" data-end=\"1805\"\u003ePages: 512\u003cbr data-start=\"1815\" data-end=\"1818\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Taschen\u003cbr data-start=\"1845\" data-end=\"1848\"\u003eISBN: 978-3-8365-5638-5\u003cbr data-start=\"1871\" data-end=\"1874\"\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52474885833042,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_6e5d6669-6136-4d9d-92c7-ef4561079e01.jpg?v=1768378135"},{"product_id":"tokyo-lucky-hole-araki-s-black-hole-of-desire-copy","title":"Bondage — Araki","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"112\" data-end=\"687\"\u003eThis photobook by Nobuyoshi Araki, \u003cem data-start=\"147\" data-end=\"156\"\u003eBondage\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Taschen stages the erotic and psychological rituals of kinbaku — Japanese rope bondage — as a formal and obsessive art. First captured in Araki’s lens in the 1980s and returning here in bold colour, the suspended and constrained female body becomes a tableau: not of violence, but of choreography, costume, and control. In Araki’s world, bondage is not simply restraint — it is expression, aestheticised suffering, a language of touch that binds photography to performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"689\" data-end=\"1202\"\u003eShot in traditional tatami rooms, the photographs feature women posed in shibari configurations, suspended in mid-air or splayed against sliding paper screens. Their faces remain composed, their bodies taut, set within lushly constructed interiors that echo Edo-era erotic woodblocks. The juxtaposition of kimono, rope, and gaze builds a highly coded image-world — theatrical, intimate, surreal. In the corner, Araki's familiar plastic dinosaur appears, a strange toy to rupture the otherwise sacred erotic scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1204\" data-end=\"1538\"\u003eThis large-format edition reproduces the images at full scale, allowing their graphic intensity and compositional precision to unfold across every page. For those interested in the visual logic of power and the performance of sexuality in Japanese visual culture, \u003cem data-start=\"1468\" data-end=\"1477\"\u003eBondage\u003c\/em\u003e remains one of Araki’s most provocative and enduring series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1540\" data-end=\"1559\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1540\" data-end=\"1559\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1561\" data-end=\"1866\"\u003eTitle: Bondage\u003cbr data-start=\"1575\" data-end=\"1578\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Nobuyoshi Araki\u003cbr data-start=\"1610\" data-end=\"1613\"\u003eDate: 2024\u003cbr data-start=\"1648\" data-end=\"1651\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Colour offset printing\u003cbr data-start=\"1702\" data-end=\"1705\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover with cloth spine\u003cbr data-start=\"1751\" data-end=\"1754\"\u003eDimensions: 26.5 x 33 cm\u003cbr data-start=\"1778\" data-end=\"1781\"\u003ePages: 288\u003cbr data-start=\"1791\" data-end=\"1794\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Taschen\u003cbr data-start=\"1821\" data-end=\"1824\"\u003eISBN: 978-3-8365-7741-0\u003cbr data-start=\"1847\" data-end=\"1850\"\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52474894287186,"sku":null,"price":100.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_3b0c9cd5-9124-49da-a6c8-17b9bf426775.jpg?v=1768378479"},{"product_id":"araki-nobuyoshi-gallimard-musee-guimet-2016","title":"Araki Nobuyoshi — Gallimard \/ Musée Guimet (2016)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"118\" data-end=\"587\"\u003ePublished for the first major French retrospective of Nobuyoshi Araki, this large-format monograph offers a fifty-year view into one of Japan’s most provocative and prolific photographers. From his early series \u003cem data-start=\"329\" data-end=\"349\"\u003eThéâtre de l’amour\u003c\/em\u003e (1965), through iconic studies of kinbaku (Japanese erotic rope bondage), to the haunting \u003cem data-start=\"440\" data-end=\"455\"\u003eTokyo Tombeau\u003c\/em\u003e, this book presents Araki’s work not simply as erotic or subversive, but as a lifelong diary — obsessive, florid, mourning-infused.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"589\" data-end=\"1045\"\u003eBound between floral covers that simultaneously evoke life and decay, the volume echoes Araki’s own collapse of sensuality and mortality. Accompanying texts by Tadao Ando, Philippe Forest, Jérôme Ghesquière, and others provide interpretive ballast, situating Araki within the broader fabric of Japanese culture and art history. Yet the photographs resist containment: erotic, everyday, baroque, and brutal — each image is part confession, part performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1047\" data-end=\"1323\"\u003ePrinted for the Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, this French edition by Gallimard is both scholarly and sensual. 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Published in 1992 at the height of Araki’s cult notoriety, the book is a chromatic, handwritten, hand-marked torrent of collaged photographs and daily obsessions, printed in full-bleed across vivid, chaotic spreads.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"602\" data-end=\"1035\"\u003eThe cover alone—a blaring orange field scrawled with calligraphic ink, brushstrokes, and a bold ‘92—sets the tone for what’s inside: an unfiltered transmission from Araki’s compulsive eye, fusing eroticism, street snapshots, food, women, dolls, skies, and self-portraits into a singular visual syntax. Each page functions as a kind of performative act, as though Araki were trying to capture every fleeting moment before it vanishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1037\" data-end=\"1498\"\u003eUnlike the controlled violence of \u003cem data-start=\"1071\" data-end=\"1092\"\u003eSentimental Journey\u003c\/em\u003e or the sorrowful beauty of \u003cem data-start=\"1120\" data-end=\"1136\"\u003eWinter Journey\u003c\/em\u003e, here the register is almost manic—Araki as mad monk of the Tokyo everyday. The book’s design amplifies this instability: marker annotations, brush calligraphy, pasted elements and scribbles turn the photobook into a hyperactive personal zine at scale. It belongs in the Darwin archive as a maximalist Araki object—messy, excessive, urgent, and defiantly alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1500\" data-end=\"1836\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003cbr data-start=\"1515\" data-end=\"1518\"\u003eTitle: 写狂人色日記 (Shakyōjin Iro Nikki)\u003cbr data-start=\"1553\" data-end=\"1556\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Nobuyoshi Araki\u003cbr data-start=\"1588\" data-end=\"1591\"\u003eDate: 1992\u003cbr data-start=\"1601\" data-end=\"1604\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-start=\"1639\" data-end=\"1642\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover with dust jacket\u003cbr data-start=\"1688\" data-end=\"1691\"\u003eDimensions (cm): approx. 21 × 30\u003cbr data-start=\"1723\" data-end=\"1726\"\u003eLanguage: Japanese\u003cbr data-start=\"1744\" data-end=\"1747\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Switch Corporation\u003cbr data-start=\"1785\" data-end=\"1788\"\u003eCondition: Very good with original dust jacket\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1839\" data-end=\"1897\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52565296742738,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_3_74cb0df2-3d6c-4c83-ba67-e35c6d0df7c1.jpg?v=1769423892"},{"product_id":"marvelous-tales-of-black-ink-by-nobuyoshi-araki-2014-edition-of-1000","title":"Marvelous Tales of Black Ink by Nobuyoshi Araki, 2014 edition of 1000","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"570\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"168\"\u003eMarvelous Tales of Black Ink\u003c\/em\u003e is a rare, late-period meditation by Nobuyoshi Araki—less scandalous, more elemental. Published in 2014 by MÖREL in a limited edition of 1000, the book presents a sequence of brush drawings that merge calligraphy, eroticism, and mourning into a haunted graphic language. Here, Araki abandons the camera for ink, using sumi to gesture toward his own mortality, loss, and obsession with the female form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"987\"\u003eThe drawings are immediate and fluid—women’s bodies collapse into brushstrokes, genitals dissolve into gesture, and black pools of ink seem to hover between orgasm and elegy. These are not illustrations or studies, but ritual marks: a mourning process on paper, rendered with Araki’s unmistakable emotional voltage. The artist’s wife Yoko had died decades earlier, and the specter of absence runs through each page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"989\" data-end=\"1282\"\u003eAccompanied by a brief text from Simon Baker and published in London with support from Imitate Modern, the book feels like a quiet howl—elegant, confrontational, and deeply personal. 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Shot over five days in the early months of their marriage, the book documents everything: their hotel room, train rides, meals, sex, boredom, tenderness. The photographs are small, grainy, and direct—bound together by a radical, confessional sincerity that shaped Japanese photographic culture for decades to follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"690\" data-end=\"1158\"\u003eUnlike Araki’s later work, where eroticism often turns theatrical or provocative, \u003cem data-start=\"772\" data-end=\"793\"\u003eSentimental Journey\u003c\/em\u003e is restrained and emotionally naked. The photographs feel like they were made not to be seen, but to be kept—as if the viewer is trespassing gently on a private world. It is not just a love story, but the beginning of a lifelong photographic mourning, one that would echo painfully in his later book \u003cem data-start=\"1094\" data-end=\"1132\"\u003eSentimental Journey \/ Winter Journey\u003c\/em\u003e, made after Yoko’s death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1160\" data-end=\"1443\"\u003eThis 2016 edition replicates the original format with high fidelity, down to the kraft paper cover and the sequence of 108 images. 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Commissioned during the peak of his commercial and diaristic output, Araki’s images here combine street photography with erotic fiction, pairing lurid downtown tableaux with a text that blurs confession and pulp. The dust jacket design—white-on-white emboss over a filmstrip of garish signage and half-shadowed pedestrians—stages the tension perfectly: this is a city both brightly lit and opaque, erotic and mundane. In Araki’s hands, colour is never neutral. His Kodachrome palette turns the banal spectacle of Dōtonbori into something mythic and carnivalesque, vibrating with a hormonal charge. This is the same Araki of \u003cem data-start=\"887\" data-end=\"905\"\u003eTokyo Lucky Hole\u003c\/em\u003e, but looser, more playful—interested less in staging than in immersion, letting the city speak through the flash of its lights and bodies. A time capsule of 1980s Kansai decadence, and a crucial precursor to later street colourists like Daido Moriyama and Anders Petersen, who also worked the line between lust and reportage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1233\" data-end=\"1619\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1233\" data-end=\"1252\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"1252\" data-end=\"1255\"\u003eTitle: 原色の街 (Genshoku no Machi \/ Primary Color Streets)\u003cbr data-start=\"1310\" data-end=\"1313\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Nobuyoshi Araki\u003cbr data-start=\"1345\" data-end=\"1348\"\u003eDate: 1986\u003cbr data-start=\"1358\" data-end=\"1361\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-start=\"1396\" data-end=\"1399\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Softcover with dust jacket and obi\u003cbr data-start=\"1453\" data-end=\"1456\"\u003eDimensions (cm): 18 × 25.7\u003cbr data-start=\"1482\" data-end=\"1485\"\u003eLanguage: Japanese\u003cbr data-start=\"1503\" data-end=\"1506\"\u003ePages: 108\u003cbr data-start=\"1516\" data-end=\"1519\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Shinchosha\u003cbr data-start=\"1549\" data-end=\"1552\"\u003eISBN: 4-10-380004-6\u003cbr data-start=\"1571\" data-end=\"1574\"\u003eCondition: Very good with light wear to edges\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52576464437586,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_2_a75c23ca-5936-4179-81a9-8907f97397a7.jpg?v=1769546759"},{"product_id":"包茎亭日乗-hokeitei-nichijo-nobuyoshi-araki-1994","title":"包茎亭日乗 (Hōkeitei Nichijō) — Nobuyoshi Araki, 1994","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"1969\" data-end=\"2949\"\u003ePublished in 1994, \u003cem data-start=\"1988\" data-end=\"2006\"\u003eHōkeitei Nichijō\u003c\/em\u003e—literally “Foreskin Pavilion Daily Record”—is Nobuyoshi Araki at his most performative, perverse, and diaristic. The book collects over seven years of monthly photographic columns originally published in the gossip magazine \u003cem data-start=\"2231\" data-end=\"2248\"\u003eUwasa no Shinso\u003c\/em\u003e (1987–1994), fusing erotic snapshots, street images, and handwritten notes into a chaotic personal chronicle. The title is a joke, the pink dust jacket a provocation, and the book itself a theatre of self-exposure. Araki stages himself in word and image as a debauched artist-monk, obsessed with women, sex, grief, and photography. Every page is a collision of truth and invention. The tone—intimate but grotesque, comic but mournful—lays the groundwork for Araki’s later self-mythologizing books. Visually, it mixes raw flash with vernacular kitsch, collapsing high and low into a single erotic-pulp register. A cult object and a crucial index of Araki’s transition from documentarian to self-brand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2951\" data-end=\"3301\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2951\" data-end=\"2970\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"2970\" data-end=\"2973\"\u003eTitle: 包茎亭日乗 (Hōkeitei Nichijō)\u003cbr data-start=\"3004\" data-end=\"3007\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Nobuyoshi Araki\u003cbr data-start=\"3039\" data-end=\"3042\"\u003eDate: 1994\u003cbr data-start=\"3052\" data-end=\"3055\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-start=\"3090\" data-end=\"3093\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Softcover with dust jacket\u003cbr data-start=\"3139\" data-end=\"3142\"\u003eDimensions (cm): 18.3 × 25.8\u003cbr data-start=\"3170\" data-end=\"3173\"\u003eLanguage: Japanese\u003cbr data-start=\"3191\" data-end=\"3194\"\u003ePages: 263\u003cbr data-start=\"3204\" data-end=\"3207\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: East Press\u003cbr data-start=\"3237\" data-end=\"3240\"\u003eISBN: 4-87257-031-6\u003cbr data-start=\"3259\" data-end=\"3262\"\u003eCondition: Very good, minor edge wear\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52576472695122,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_4_19555704-2dc1-4985-ba36-3c6cef0cd6a1.jpg?v=1769547235"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/collections\/nobuyoshi-araki-880240.webp?v=1768338280","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/collections\/araki.oembed","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}