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Vagabond Plain, detail: page 19 of 54
Vagabond Plain, detail: page 19 of 54
Vagabond Plain, detail: page 19 of 54

Vagabond Plain, detail: page 19 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 number2019-5-19
DescriptionTranslation:

[Upper right]
Narrator: So that fat tuna steak and the roads are like monuments to the ruins of the Japanese spirit.

[Upper left]
You can't say they didn't try their best, though...

[Upper middle right]
Look at the clouds move...

[Upper middle left]
Akira: Quite a romantic, aren't you?
Narrator: Ha ha...

[Lower middle right]
I wonder, what's their hurry?

[Lower middle left]
Hey pops.
Akira: Who?

[Lower right]
Pops: It's coming...

[Lower left]
Narrator: It is, huh? I thought it might. When?
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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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