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Titles

無頼平野
Burai heiya

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)

ClassificationsDrawings

Credit LinePartial purchase, partial gift of the artist, 2019

Object number2019-5-35

DescriptionTranslation:

[Upper right]
Narrator: Seems like everyone's gettin' on just fine...

[Center right]
Eat and sleep, call it a day...

[Center left]
Wan le, finito!

[Lower right]
Money, that's what everyone wants...

[Lower left]
So they run around like chickens with their heads cut off...
Sometimes, they don't have even a single potato to eat.
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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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