creditline:"Gift of Mrs. Charles B. Meech"
Winter Tree
(Prostitute and a Man Kissing)
(Prostitute and Her Guest in front of Chrysanthenum Screen)
Job
Tree
Demon Reciting Buddhist Prayers
"Gathering Mushrooms in Mid-Autumn"
Sphinx—Night
Ancient City Nara
Before Mountaineering
Stones
Lunchtime III
Storyville IV
Diary
Work "31"
Untitled C
Untitled (hunting scene)
Buddhist Deities
Taking Niuzhang Fort
Taking Tienjin Fortress
Night View of a Town by a River
Untitled
Two Tops
(Lovers embracing)
Object 6
(View of Fuji)
Untitled (Man, Woman, American Flag)
Between the Trees
Shower
Untitled (caravan of warriors)
Lunchtime II
After the Rain
View of the Fall of Chinchow Fort
April 22nd '70, in New York (g)
The Flutist
Summer B
Extension No. 12
Captain Higuchi is Fighting Bravely While Holding an Orphan in His Arm
Wood Sprite
Jump
Woman
Summer A
Lunchtime IV
Print 13
Diary September 13th '73
Title unknown [Two Demons
Untitled (Intersecting Mirrors)
Portfolio of twelve facsimiles of copper engravings
Quarrelling Birds
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The four prints in this case were among twelve selected to accompany the English translation of A Fool’s Life by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (1892–1927). Discovered and published after his suicide, A Fool’s Life consists of 51 fleeting sections, some based on his real life and others imaginary. Tanaka did not create the prints expressly for Akutagawa or the story; the publisher, Mushinsha, had requested to reproduce Tanaka’s prints as illustrations for the translation because they were in the publisher’s collection. The everyday sights in Tanaka’s prints—a retaining wall; a handful of dried fish; a massive tree; a freshly picked bamboo shoot— echo the protagonist’s growing solitude.