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When Ohtake read in his college days Mr. Ango Sakaguchi's literature titled "My
personal view on Japanese culture", which was written in 1942, he was somewhat
attracted by three subjects which Sakaguchi mentioned: About the beauty related to Kosuge
Prison, about a dry ice factory and about a battle ship accident he saw on his trip.In his writing, Sakaguchi does not use a word of mechanical beauty and also
he does not mean beauty belong to those subjects themselves. However, Ohtake imagines
Sakaguchi's beauty means something directly hitting and hollowing his heart and also
something leading his heart to nostalgia and moreover, Ohtake feels Sakaguchi couldn't yet
define the feeling such as beauty and tried to get it into more delicate domain
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Ohtake is impatient with Sakaguchi's writing, but he believes what
Sakaguchi tries to say (irritation) has been carried forward to today in various forms and
still continues to live boldly in todays very funny scenery, although majority of Japanese
thinks everything has now being changed since then.
**Ango Sakaguchi - a famous writer and critic during 1940s-50s
**Kosuge Prison - a famous prison where General and Premier Mr. Tojou was hung in
1946.
Ohtake created 60 new drawings under this theme for the Niitsu
Exhibition.
(flyer translation by Ryo Chigira, dnp, Tokyo)
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