(item number) 2635
(title) Yoshiharu Tsuge Hand-Written Work,"Yoshiharu Tsuge Early Short Story Collection"
(size) 196 x 285 mm
(side note) Includes alternative manuscript.
(Condition Rating) 7
(detailed) /7 (tape marks discoloration)
(starting bid price) 1,500,000 yen
(comment) These works were created by Yoshiharu Tsuge around the time he drew "Obake Chimney," while grappling with poverty, suffering, and the fear of being trapped in a labyrinth with no light. The dreamlike quality, autobiographical nature, and silent pauses of his later works were not yet fully developed: rather, the very pressure of his life seeps into the canvas. Poverty, hardship, deadlines for Kashi-hon Manga, readers' demands, publishers' demands, fears and delusions welling up from within-these pressures cause him to tumble from one step to the next, and then the next, against his will... In other words, this doll symbolizes "a person who seems to be moving on their own, but is actually being moved by something," and the backflip movement itself signifies that he did not see "art" in this doll, but rather a form of survival. More precisely, this backflip doll is a self-portrait for early Yoshiharu Tsuge, a magnificent portrait. It's not a statue, nor a heroic self-portrait, but simply a small doll falling from step to step, its body tipped over as it descends. A strange beauty resides only in its tumbling figure, and therein lies the essence of Yoshiharu Tsuge's early work. What he wanted to convey is that even though humans believe they are living by their own will, in reality they are pushed down the steps of life in strange postures by invisible forces such as poverty, fear, the times, work, their bodies, and chance. And while this is tragic, it is also somehow comical. It is precisely because it is comical that it is all the more sad. The meaning becomes all the stronger if this box illustration is placed at the entrance to "Yoshiharu Tsuge's Early Short Stories." A box is normally a vessel to hold a work, but in this box illustration, the artist's anxiety is already exposed on the surface of the vessel. The doll descending the steps is the early works themselves.
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