Go Yayanagi’s 1974 silkscreen 源氏物語 (5) (The Tale of Genji (5)) juxtaposes stylized fowls alongside sensual abstract forms: a tongue-like element hovers above a form in flowing drapery of yellow hash and zebra stripes - all set against a receding pink grid and clear cerulean sky. Bold Pop-Uki energy. 🎨
- Year & Edition: 1974 · The Tale of Genji (5) · Ed. 38/70 (signed & dated in pencil).
- Series: 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji): a series of ten picture-poems (1–10), edition of 70, published in 1974 celebrating Japan’s greatest work of literary prose. Written in the early eleventh century by Murasaki Shikibu - a novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court - the Tale of Genji follows the fictional life and romances of the “Shining Prince.” Yayanagi’s Pop-Uki reinterpretation honors this legacy while charting new graphic territory. The Kojiki (古事記) and further picture-poem series - The Earth… and Now (地球…そして今は), Men & Women (男と女) and The Flying Pencils (飛んだえんぴつ) - soon follow during his prolific 1970s silkscreen period.
- Medium: Silkscreen.
- Dimensions: Sheet H: 79.50 cm × W: 55.00 cm.
- Condition: Good; colours vibrant with minor surface marks and slight edge crimping.
- Notes: This sheet’s fusion of fowl symbolism and tongue-like form draped in yellow hash and zebra stripes distills Genji’s world into bold Pop-Uki abstraction. For deeper context on Genji’s world, see The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019). An essential piece for collectors of Japanese printmaking and avant-garde Pop-Uki art. 👁️✨
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