Yoshihiro Tatsuki, born Tokushima, Japan 1937
Untitled (Girl in a Patterned Kimono Lying Down)
1981
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Yoshihiro Tatsuki, born Tokushima, Japan 1937
Untitled (Girl in a Patterned Kimono Lying Down)
1981
Physical Qualities
Chromogenic print, Image: 188 × 239 mm. (7 3/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From the series, "Gleanings from Snow Country"
Credit Line
Gift of Brenda Edelson, Santa Fe
Object Number
2018.94
Tatsuki’s interests in nature, ambiguity, and mortality are all present in this image of a young woman lying on a ground covered with fallen flower petals. She wears a colorful wedding kimono decorated with a wave pattern and mandarin ducks, which symbolize marital happiness and faithfulness. She grasps a samurai sword drawn from the sheath laying across her body. The startling image gives no clue to the events preceding it nor to
those that follow.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2018: Brenda Edelson, Santa Fe, by purchase, 2015; Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Time Frames: Contemporary East Asian Photography," November 4, 2018-March 24, 2019.
Inscribed: Signed, black ink, below image, along bottom edge at right, "Y. Totsuki"
Artist
Yoshihiro Tatsuki, born Tokushima, Japan 1937
Japanese, born 1937
Japanese, born 1937
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