Japanese Editions

Publications, artist books, and printed matter in Japanese or produced within Japanese publishing contexts. Editions, translations, and original Japanese-language objects: works that carry their content through a different language system, where translation, typography, and publishing context become part of the object’s form.

  • Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992. Japanese edition. Front cover with dust jacket. Cream ground. Upper band: blue speckled paint surface. Lower band: blue-grey layered paint surface, stepped at right edge. Centre white band: Japanese title 血みどろ臓物ハイスクール in large black brushstroke type. English title "BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL" in spaced blue capitals at top. "KATHY ACKER" in spaced blue capitals at base. Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, 1992 — interior page. Three-language vocabulary lesson. Left column: Persian/Farsi script. Centre: English handwritten phrases — "father", "see my father!", "my father is dead.", "my father is blue.", "body", "my body is life.", "my body is hot.", "cunt". Right column: Japanese translations in small printed type. White space dominant.

    Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992 (Japanese edition)

    Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992 (Japanese edition)

  • `Keizō Kitajima — 東京 No. 2 (Tokyo No. 2), Photo Express Tokyo, February 1979. Front cover. High-contrast black and white photograph of two figures in close proximity, faces partially obscured, one in a leather jacket, set against a dark ground with diagonal structural elements. Title in teal kanji and Latin type upper centre: 東京 No 2. Date and price: 1979. FEBRUARY · 200 YEN. Green circular stamps along foot reading: 写 真 特 急 便 〒 北 島 敬 三 (Photo Express Mail, Kitajima Keizō).` `Keizō Kitajima — Photo Express Tokyo No. 2, February 1979 — interior plate. High-contrast black and white photograph of a woman seated at low angle, wearing a floral-patterned qipao dress, platform shoes, and a wide-brimmed hat. Face tilted upward, smiling, body angled toward camera. Flash-bleached highlights against deep black ground. Tokyo nightlife, 1979.`

    Keizō Kitajima — Photo Express Tokyo No. 2, February 1979

    Keizō Kitajima — Photo Express Tokyo No. 2, February 1979