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Vagabond Plain, detail: page 49 of 54
Vagabond Plain, detail: page 49 of 54
Vagabond Plain, detail: page 49 of 54

Vagabond Plain, detail: page 49 of 54

Titles
  • Burai heiya
  • 無頼平野
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 number2019-5-49
DescriptionTranslation:

[Upper right]
Pwee! Pwee! (police whistles)

[Upper left]
Police officers: Huf huf! (breathing heavily)
You there!

[Upper center left]
Um, urr, where's the fight?

[Lower center right]
Bystander: What's it to you?
Officers: Um, urr, where did they go?

[Lower center left]
Sabu: That way.

[Lower right]
Bystander: This way. Then the other way.

[Lower left]
Other bystander: And then they went over there.
Officer: Grrr...
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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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