Vagabond Plain, detail: page 18 of 54
Titles
- 無頼平野
- Burai heiya
Artist
Tsuge Tadao
(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 number2019-5-18
DescriptionTranslation:[Upper right]
Narrator: Must have been for military research or military training...
[Middle right]
Like for bamboo spear attacks maybe...
[Middle left]
Or maybe for firefighting...
[Lower right]
I heard they even had plans to build a landing strip. But you see, brother, this is some seriously messed up land here. The ground's all funky shapes, and one typhoon and the whole area's flooded by the river.
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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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