/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5254397]

I'm currently in Japan, loading up on the strangest artbooks I can find. The ukiyo-e specialists Kuniyoshi and Yoshitoshi have served me well so far.
I've been disappointed by the 19th century shunga (erotic art) collections, except for the ones that incorporate the supernatural - e.g. a woman being raped by kappas underwater, two homosexuals being ambushed by anthropomorphic vaginas, etc.

I've also bought a nice volume by a moderner, Takato Yamamoto, and I'm still looking for Suehiro Maruo and perhaps something based on Serial Experiments Lain. Nobody does creepy quite like the Japanese: as far as I'm concerned, I'm filling my suitcase with revelations.

Do you have any recommendations for grotesque or uncanny Japanese art or illustration, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.5254544]

Ghost vagina bump.

[Anonymous No.5254641]

http://www.akatako.net/
http://timeless-shop.com/

Anything Japanese that is there, it's underground's finest.

[Anonymous No.5254660]

wow shit's crazy yo. saw some original yoshitoshi's in a gallery the other day, what a master. sorry I can't help.

[Anonymous No.5254671]

>>5254544
Reminds me of a Dali, was this his source I wonder, or just like minded. can't find the image at the moment

[Anonymous No.5254751]

Wasting your money of ukiyo-e when you could be buying books bro. Or go meet the last great japanese writer alive, oe kenzaburo.

[Anonymous No.5255007]

>>5254751
Can't read moorunes
Well... the kana and a few dozen kanji, but konpurahenshon ga nai dess

[Anonymous No.5255094]

>>5255007
>dess

>not desu

[Anonymous No.5255106]

>>5254751
>Or go meet the last great japanese writer alive, oe kenzaburo.
Because it is that easy. Fuck, you're seriously retarded.

[Anonymous No.5255118]

>>5255094
Eh. That's how the shinkansen announcement lady says it.

[Anonymous No.5255164]

>>5255106
>implying it's not that easy
Writers don't generally live in heavily-guarded compounds, yo. Disregard if he's an actual legit recluse or something.

[Anonymous No.5255173]

>>5254544
That's pretty fun. Is it contemporary, or earlier?

[Anonymous No.5255187]

>>5254397
pretti edgy ;)

[Anonymous No.5255301]

>>5255173
It's by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, so 1880s-90s.

>>5255187
I'm so glad I met yr. approval =>)

[Anonymous No.5255321]

>>5254397
I wish I was you.

[Anonymous No.5255804]

2spooky4me

[Anonymous No.5258319]

Good morning everybody~

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[Anonymous No.5258361]

I made this and I live in Japan

[Anonymous No.5258363]

Suehiro Maruo might be something like what you're looking for

[Anonymous No.5258366]

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[Anonymous No.5258376]

>>5258366
You're defacing some good artwork here son.

[Anonymous No.5258378]

this one is from gravity's rainbow

[Anonymous No.5258382]

check em

[Anonymous No.5258385]

>>5258382
>>5258378
>>5258375
>>5258366
These are terrible. Stop.

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[Anonymous No.5258393]

last one

[Anonymous No.5258403]

>>5254397
at least go and masturbate in mishima grave or something

[Anonymous No.5258511]

>>5258393
Those were almost funny.

>>5258403
Which reminds me... I need to find a copy of Barakei.

[Anonymous No.5259590]

No luck on the photography run. I did find a good used shunga book - here's a sample from my shitty phone camera. The books's mostly people fucking on tatami mats while a woman peeks at them from behind a screen. Oddly, no male voyeurs. I wonder what Freud would make of all this.

[Anonymous No.5259664]

>>5258361
10/10 I smiled.

[Anonymous No.5259706]

goat jap art

[Anonymous No.5259710]

>>5254397
hey op, I'm interested in the whole melting landscape/sumi-e painting, but its really hard to find examples on the internet or irl. So if you have any, I would be super grateful if you scanned/photographed them and posted or uploaded them somewhere.

[Anonymous No.5259737]

If you find any Lain stuff please post, thanks.
Crazy Jap shit.

[Anonymous No.5259976]

>>5259710
My camera is dogshit, and I won't have (easy) access to a scanner for about three weeks.
I'll start sharing stuff about then.
I have a lot of Chinese landscape painting which I think you'd like, and a small amount of Japanese.
This is a shitty photograph of a page from a book on Soga Shohaku, one of those rare painters whose landscapes and faces are equally distinctive. A distinctively Japanese feature of landscape painting turns up in his work: diagonal shafts of light all across the canvas.

I recommend... pretty much the entire Song dynasty corpus of Shanshui, especially Li Tang aka Li Cheng and Dong Yuan. Mostly sepia coloured landscapes that look more Martian than Chinese, done in "portrait" position.

[Anonymous No.5260009]

>>5259976
As you can see, I'm at nothing with this camera.

[Anonymous No.5260912]

Your guess is as good as mine.
1771.

[Anonymous No.5261456]

Also 1771.

[Feminister is a pederast No.5261458]

>>5254397
take it to /ic/, they might know more

[Anonymous No.5261661]

>>5259976
perfect, your photo is exactly what I was talking about, I find them so interesting.

thanks for the rec OP, and I'll be looking forward to the scans when you get back.