group of identical soldiers at right on a red platform in stylized turquoise and silver waves in water; soldier are wearing black masks covering their foreheads and cheeks, and black guards over their backs of their hands and lower arms, with two soldiers wearing armor helmets, all wearing white loincloths with heavily tattooed bodies with blue curving forms, dragons, leaves and fish with orange details, with spears pointing toward left; some soldiers being held back by several identical heavyset nude women pulling them down; all figures have blank eyes rimmed in orange; nude heavyset white figure at left, holding a tiny white baby to chest, falling face down into water, while one of the hooked ends of a spear wound adult figure's back; gold background

%C2%A9 Hideo Takeda

Emperor Antoku Plunges into the Water, 1985

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Title
Emperor Antoku Plunges into the Water
Artist Life
born 1948
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2018.105.5
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group of identical soldiers at right on a red platform in stylized turquoise and silver waves in water; soldier are wearing black masks covering their foreheads and cheeks, and black guards over their backs of their hands and lower arms, with two soldiers wearing armor helmets, all wearing white loincloths with heavily tattooed bodies with blue curving forms, dragons, leaves and fish with orange details, with spears pointing toward left; some soldiers being held back by several identical heavyset nude women pulling them down; all figures have blank eyes rimmed in orange; nude heavyset white figure at left, holding a tiny white baby to chest, falling face down into water, while one of the hooked ends of a spear wound adult figure's back; gold background

© Hideo Takeda

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