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Koshimaki-Osen was the first performance at Kara
Jūrō’s experimental Situation Theater, held in the “Red Tent” near Hanazono Shrine in Shinjuku. In this poster for the performance, Yokoo makes a collage of images from traditional and contemporary culture. He includes the Shinkansen, the “Bullet Train” that went into service in 1964 in time for the Olympics; a wave reminiscent of a Hokusai print; a card with a motif of a camellia, from the hanafuda game; a photograph of the actors, taken by Hosoe Eikoh; a Japanese flag of the prewar period; his signature flying “Pink Girls”; and a picture of Kara Jūrō, behind the turned-back corner in the lower right.
SM 2012

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