Artworks

Yukio Mishima, from Barakei (Ordeal by Roses)

Artwork · Eikō Hosoe · 1963 · photograph

From the series Eikō Hosoe (b. 1933) made of Yukio Mishima at his Tokyo home in 1961 and 1962, after his collaboration with the dancer Tatsumi Hijikata: composite, theatrical images combining hysterical sensuality with morbid sobriety — later read as a rehearsal for Mishima’s death in 1970. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 387–388, fig. 463. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.