Ordeal by Roses Reedited

Eikoh Hosoe, Yokoo Tadanori, Yukio Mishima

Tokyo

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Shueisha

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1971

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Second Edition.

38.5cm x 53cm. [104] pages, colour illustrations. Black cloth, pictorial onlay, cloth folder with illustrated inner, no cardboard shipping box. Text is bilingual, English and Japanese, primarily pictorial.

The artistic collaboration between Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe and writer Yukio Mishima. First published in 1961, this second edition, significantly revised by the authors, and with illustrations by Yokoo Tadanori, was published shortly after Mishima’s suicide by seppuku, Barakei / Ordeal by Roses remains one of the defining photobooks of the 20th century, highlighting both Hosoe’s skill as a photographer and providing one of the most intimate visual portraits of one of Japan’s most important literary figures. Also features butoh dancer Hijikata Tatsumi.

Very Good Condition in Fair folder. Minor marks to cloth. Interior clean. Folder cloth significantly foxed. 13cm split to cloth along top edge of upper board, boards still connecting firmly. Good Condition.