Eikoh Hosoe, a pivotal figure in postwar Japanese avant-garde, explored complex themes of gender, desire, and mythology through collaborative visual narratives with notable artists.
Working like a film director or an improv coach, he coaxed narratives out of his extraordinary collaborators... creating a rupture in the conventional time and space of reality.
The theme of Ordeal by Roses... was ultimately life and death through Yukio Mishima, borrowing his flesh and using a rose as a visible symbol of beauty and thorns.
In the mid-1960s, Mr. Hosoe and Mr. Hijikata began investigating the legend of the Kamaitachi, an evil spirit that takes the shape of a weasel.
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