Tadanori Yokoo Sakuragi Jinja Silkscreen Poster, Rising-Sun Shrine Composition, 103 x 73 cm, Unframed
Tadanori Yokoo Sakuragi Jinja Silkscreen Poster, Rising-Sun Shrine Composition, 103 x 73 cm, Unframed
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Tadanori Yokoo's poster for Sakuragi Jinja, a full-scale silkscreen in which the rays of a rising sun burst across a collage of shrine imagery, cherry blossom and sacred streamers.
The Piece
Tadanori Yokoo, born in 1936, turned the Japanese poster into a vehicle for pop art in the 1960s, mixing Edo woodblock imagery, Shinto symbols and the visual noise of modern Tokyo. MoMA gave him a solo show of his posters in 1972, and the radiating sun has remained one of his signature devices ever since.
Here the sun sits at the heart of the sheet, its red, yellow and blue rays pulling the eye outwards to a constellation of devotional images: zigzag shide paper streamers, a crane and a cockerel, panels of court figures on gold, a lantern and a vermilion torii post lettered SAKURAGI JINJA. Pink cherry blossom drifts at the edges, a nod to the shrine's name, and the artist's own brushed signature line is printed at lower right.
Silkscreen gives the colours a dense, slightly raised surface that offset printing cannot match, and at a metre tall the sheet holds a wall alone.
Details
- Artist: Tadanori Yokoo (born 1936)
- Subject: Poster for Sakuragi Jinja
- Medium: Silkscreen on paper
- Signature: Printed in the plate
- Format: Unframed sheet, rolled for shipping
- Measurements: 103 x 73 cm (40.6 x 28.7 in). Every measurement is taken by hand, with the piece laid flat and the tape read by eye, so please allow a gentle margin of about 1–3 cm (0.5–1 in) for the natural give of fabric, handwork and the human hand.
Condition
Good. The colours are strong and the surface clean, with some spotting along the margins from storage. The sheet is offered without a frame and ships rolled in a tube.
Condition grade B (visible marks) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Every piece carries the Japonista authenticity guarantee. Unroll slowly, let the sheet relax, then frame behind UV-filtering glazing on an acid-free mount.
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