Artworks

Hinomaru Illumination (Amaterasu and Haniwa)

Artwork · Yukinori Yanagi · 1991 · installation · The Museum of Art, Kōchi

After the death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989, Yukinori Yanagi (b. 1959) took on the last great taboo — nationalism: a group of haniwa, some saluting, stands in reverence before a huge neon sun in the form of the national flag — the unthinking mass worshipping a modernized image of the nation. 1 Mason 2005, p. 391, fig. 468. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.