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Titles

Burai heiya
無頼平野

Artist Tsuge Tadao (Japan, born 1941)

Date1975

GeographyJapan

MediumInk on paper

Dimensions13 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. (34.3 x 24.5 cm)
mat size: 19 x 14 in. (48.3 x 35.6 cm)
frame size: 20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm)

ClassificationsDrawings

Credit LinePartial purchase, partial gift of the artist, 2019

Object number2019-5-09

DescriptionTranslation:

[Upper right]
Narrator: Not only did this house continue to stand...

[Upper left, right]
As men without money, without homes, with nothing, began to trickle in...

[Upper left, left]
Oversized mushroom homes proliferated more and more.

[Upper center right]
Over time...

[Upper center left]
This sea of grass...

[Lower center right]
Which once seemed beyond the reach of man...

[Lower right]
Was occupied by wild men... It was filled by their disconcerting laughter...

[Lower center left]
Thus, in a matter of a few months, appeared a settlement of a hundred or so shelters...
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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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