“From the Axis Pact to Sanrizuka” (三国同盟から三里塚まで Sangoku dōmei kara Sanrizuka made), by Maruki Toshi and Iri, 1979.
This painting by Maruki Toshi and Iri appears in my chapter, “Visualizing Nagasaki: Art, Ekphrasis, and Postmemory,” in The “Inheritance” of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Rethinking the Bombings in a Post-Survivor World, eds. Maika Nakao, Masaya Nemoto, and Ran Zwigenberg, forthcoming from Bloomsbury. The chapter can be found here (link coming soon). The digital copy of the painting is provided here in lieu of a Figure inclusion in the chapter’s text, and it appears courtesy of the National Gallery of Bulgaria. Full credit below.
Above: From the Axis Pact to Sanrizuka (1979), ink, paper, mixed media, size 271х1470 cm, by Japanese artists Maruki Iri (1901-1995) and Maruki Toshi (1912-2000), which has been photographed, is part of the collection of the National Gallery, Bulgaria. The image appears on this site with permission.
Below: Detail of second panel with mother and child.
