Nationalistic Idols (Mount Fuji)
Nationalistic Idols (Mount Fuji)
Nationalistic Idols (Diet building), Nationalistic Idols (King)
Nationalistic Idols (Diet building), Nationalistic Idols (King)
Nationalistic Idols (Diet building)
Nationalistic Idols (Diet building)
Nationalistic Idols (King)
Nationalistic Idols (King)
Nationalistic Idols (Trophy)
Nationalistic Idols (Trophy)
Nationalistic Idols (Kokeshi)
Nationalistic Idols (Kokeshi)
Nationalistic Idols (Car Factory)
Nationalistic Idols (Car Factory)
Nationalistic Idols (Ropeway)
Nationalistic Idols (Ropeway)
Nationalistic Idols (Ranch)
Nationalistic Idols (Ranch)
Nationalistic Idols series (1999)
woodcut print (panel, Japanese paper, sumi ink)

Japan’s great advancement in the international economic arena cultivated the ambiguous nationalism of being “a major economic power.”
In this series, various motifs which symbolize the Japanese economic growth are depicted through the composition characterized by an upward trend.