HOSOE EIKOH (1933 ) Ordeal by Roses

Sale 1996 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 9,775

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

HOSOE, EIKOH (1933- )
Ordeal by Roses. Elegantly illustrated with full-page reproductions of Hosoe's dream-like photographs. Oblong moleskin elephant folio with a mounted photographic reproduction; and a black-and-white portrait of Mishima on metal, signed in the plate, on the fly leaf; folding chemise, white cloth, stamped, and with colorful allegorical Indian scene on pastedowns; in original shipping box, with an address label with Hosoe's Toyko address. revised edition, signed and inscribed by hosoe. (Tokyo), (1971)

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Yukio Mishima, the subject of Hosoe's photographs, was a celebrated Japanese novelist and activist. Mishima was committed to the idea of an imperial Japan and founded a private army called Tatenokai (Shield Society) to protect the Emperor. On November 25, 1970, shortly before the publication of this edition, Mishima delivered the final volume of his magnum opus