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Vagabond Plain, detail: page 08 of 54
Vagabond Plain, detail: page 08 of 54
Vagabond Plain, detail: page 08 of 54

Vagabond Plain, detail: page 08 of 54

Titles
  • 無頼平野
  • Burai heiya
Artist (Japan, born 1941)
Date1975
GeographyJapan
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions13 1/2 × 9 5/8 in. (34.3 × 24.5 cm)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LinePartial purchase, partial gift of the artist, 2019
Object number2019-5-08
DescriptionTranslation:

[Upper left]
Narrator: The man up and sauntered off, in the same direction as a shooting star...

[Middle right]
After that...

[Middle left]
This masterless house...

[Lower left]
Was used by wanderers and the homeless, as cheap privacy by whores, sometimes as a hideout by men on the run, and it survived as such without falling into ruin.
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Translation by Ryan Holmberg. See Tadao Tsuge and Ryan Holmberg, Slum Wolf, New York: New York Review Comics, 2018.
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