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Kamikayaku

The final six nights, Shinjuku Rocket

02.11.1983

A vocalist silhouetted against a spotlight, mic stand raised high, hands reaching up from the crowd

Welcome to Senkodo

Every negative photographer Senichi Makimura has shot in Tokyo's live houses since 1981 lives here.

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ARCHIVE

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2,612 shows. 310,000 frames. Look, or hang one on your wall.

Era

6 photographs shown

  • A vocalist leaning far over the front of the stage, faces in the front row looking up. High-contrast black and white

    FRAME 0083-22 SHINJUKU ROCKET NOV 1983

    Kamikayaku

    Shinjuku Rocket — Nov 1983

    Size
    14×17 in / 356×432mm
    Edition
    of 15

    ¥38,000

  • A long-haired guitarist in profile through smoke, ceiling lights falling in thin shafts

    FRAME 0091-08 SHIBUYA CUBE APR 1991

    Glass Rain

    Shibuya Cube — Apr 1991

    Size
    14×17 in / 356×432mm
    Edition
    of 15

    ¥34,000

  • An outdoor stage in the rain, every raindrop a white point in the strobe light

    FRAME 0096-31 OPEN AIR JUL 1996

    Dennetsu Shimai

    Open-air theatre — Jul 1996

    Size
    18×22 in / 457×560mm
    Edition
    of 10

    ¥42,000

  • Two musicians playing back to back on a tiny stage, heads nearly touching the low ceiling

    FRAME 0104-17 SHIMOKITA BELT FEB 2004

    Getsumen Club

    Shimokita Belt — Feb 2004

    Size
    14×17 in / 356×432mm
    Edition
    of 15

    ¥30,000

  • A makeshift stage under railway arches, a passing train's lights streaking overhead

    FRAME 0113-44 EBISU UNDERPASS SEP 2013

    Enrai Street

    Ebisu underpass — Sep 2013

    Size
    14×17 in / 356×432mm
    Edition
    of 15

    ¥30,000

  • Confetti drifting over the stage at blackout, the bassist looking up after the final note

    FRAME 0123-03 SHINJUKU ROCKET DEC 2023

    Reijihatsu

    Shinjuku Rocket — Dec 2023

    Size
    18×22 in / 457×560mm
    Edition
    of 10

    ¥46,000

Captions are transcribed as written on the negative sleeves. Every print is made by Makimura himself.

Prices include worldwide shipping, unframed. Once an edition sells out, it is never reprinted.

NEWS

From the Archive

  • New in
    A drawer of filed negative sheets, handwritten catalogue numbers on the labels

    18.07.2026

    Yaken Club

    4,200 uncatalogued frames from 1988–1990 join the archive, including backstage and tour-bus shots.

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  • Exhibition
    Large monochrome prints on a dim gallery wall, a visitor's silhouette before them

    30.06.2026

    Rain & Strobe

    Open-air shows in the rain — a themed show in our downstairs gallery, running through September.

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  • Prints
    Freshly made large prints hanging on a darkroom drying rack

    12.06.2026

    Large format returns

    With new drying racks installed, 18×22 in orders reopen after six months.

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  • Darkroom
    Developing trays under the red glow of a safelight

    28.05.2026

    Year 45 of the fixer

    From the darkroom diary: on fixer temperature, and the tools unchanged in 45 years.

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PRINTS

Most Wanted Prints

The four negatives that spent the most time in the darkroom this year.

  • A vocalist leaning far over the front of the stage, faces in the front row looking up. High-contrast black and white

    FRAME 0083-22

    Kamikayaku

    Shinjuku Rocket — Nov 1983

    ¥38,000 Edition of 15

  • An outdoor stage in the rain, every raindrop a white point in the strobe light

    FRAME 0096-31

    Dennetsu Shimai

    Open-air theatre — Jul 1996

    ¥42,000 Edition of 10

  • A makeshift stage under railway arches, a passing train's lights streaking overhead

    FRAME 0113-44

    Enrai Street

    Ebisu underpass — Sep 2013

    ¥30,000 Edition of 15

  • Confetti drifting over the stage at blackout, the bassist looking up after the final note

    FRAME 0123-03

    Reijihatsu

    Shinjuku Rocket — Dec 2023

    ¥46,000 Edition of 10

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A white-haired photographer at the enlarger, seen from behind, hands lit only by the safelight

About Senkodo

In the winter of 1981, Senichi Makimura started photographing shows in a Shinjuku basement — nobody had asked him to. He sold cameras by day to pay for film and spent every night in one venue or another. Forty-five years later, he still does.

Senkodo is the small organisation that keeps those negatives — 2,612 shows, 310,000 frames — catalogued, preserved and printed. Most of the bands are long gone. The nights they made are still loud inside these photographs.

Every print is a silver gelatin print, made one at a time by Makimura in his own darkroom. That is why editions are small.

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