Name: Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Roses
Author: Eikoh Hosoe
ISBN: 9780893811693

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Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Roses

Photographer
Eikoh Hosoe
Publisher

Aperture
ISBN

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Publication Year

1985
Edition

First American Edition

Purple cloth Hardcover with Dust Jacket Hardcover English 100 pages 36.63 x 26.21 x 1.63 cm 1.30 kg

Description

Originally titled “Killed by Roses” in Japan, “Ba-ra-kei” is Eikoh Hosoe’s uncontestable masterpiece. This collaborative series features the nationalist author Yukio Mishima as both subject and symbol, captured in erotic and morbid tableaux shortly before his ritual suicide in 1970. Set within the kitschy, baroque interiors of Mishima’s Tokyo home, the photographs utilize high-contrast printing and surreal props to explore the “inner rhythm” of desire and mortality. This 1985 Aperture edition serves as the first major Western release of the project, including a preface by Mishima and an afterword by Mark Holborn.

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