#takako yamaguchi

[thunderstruck9]

Takako Yamaguchi (Japanese, 1952), Waiting for the Full Moon #1, 1980. Paper mounted on panel, 48 ½ x 84 in.

[arinewman7]

Untitled

Takako Yamaguchi

oil and metal leaf on paper, 1998

[topcat77]

Takako Yamaguchi

Untitled

[oldsardens]

Takako Yamaguchi - Untitled

[screamofdespair]

ロングバケーション Long Vacation

1996

Director (#01) : Nagayama Kozo

Screenplay : Kitagawa Eriko

[redsamuraiii]

My Top 3 Favourite 90s J-Dramas

1. Beach Boys / ビーチボーイズ

Hiromi (Sorimachi Takashi) is a drifter who drifts through life without a purpose not knowing what he wants in life until he arrives at a seaside inn and fell in love with the sea that he works at the inn.

Kaito (Takenouchi Yutaka) is a top corporate ace that suffers a burnout after an incident at work that he takes a vacation at the same inn where he decides to quit his job and work there with Hiromi.

Makoto (Hirosue Ryoko) is a high schooler whose parents have divorced and she is left in the care of her grandfather who is the inn's owner. She find her life more vibrant since the duo arrives.

It's a story of three individuals, each with their own baggages of life, wondering what the future holds for them as they try to make the best of the present, which they know won't last forever.

2. Long Vacation / ロングバケーション

Sena (Kimura Takuya) is an aspiring pianist who struggles to achieve his dreams while working as a piano teacher and gets look down by his students who thinks he has no music skills.

Hayama (Yamaguchi Tomoko) is freelance model who struggles to find modeling opportunities as she grows older and her life turned upside down after she got dumped by her fiance.

The two end up living in the same apartment with affordable rent as they try to make sense of their lives and decides to take it as a "long vacation" from life to enjoy the present instead of worrying.

It's a story of two individuals struggling through life to achieve their dreams and contemplates giving them up in order to pursue something else in life or a day job just to survive.

3. Love Generation / ラブジェネレーション

Teppei (Kimura Takuya) is creative designer who got transferred to the sales department and struggles to adapt to the different work scope and rigid corporate setting and working environment.

Riko (Matsu Takako) is an office clerk working in the sales department who begins to get attracted to him but realises that he already have his eyes on someone he could never call his own.

By the time Teppei realises he had fallen for Riko whom he had spent a lot of time with and grew comfortable with, she was already set for an arranged marriage in her hometown.

It's a story of two individuals who are confused by love, each unsure if the feelings they have for each other are really love or just loneliness that yearns for each other's company in life.

90s J-Dramas just hit different, with the air of nostalgia, memorable songs, relatable life stories, characters with strong chemistry and perfect comedy timings. They make you smile and teary eyed.

[doubletakako]

。。。残り火。。。

昨日は名古屋エンポリアムでライブでした

けっこう急に決まったお話だったのですが、

GUESTがDJ Lily　a.k.a DOUBLEということで　本当にこの日が楽しみでした

前座で歌わせてもらったんですが、 最初は少しアウェイ？と思ったんだけど、

なんとかフロアーを暖めなきゃと思い頑張りました

昨日の私の役目は果たせたｶ

そしてお待ちかねのDJ TIME すごい人でしたね

最初は私もなるべくCoolにしてようと思ったのですが、

（一応出演した身だったので。。。w） 少しお酒も入ったりして、

終盤にはかなりClassic なDOUBLEのTUNE BED　～　SHAKE

この時はもうやばかったですね 私的に思い入れの強いこの２曲。

色々考えたら涙がちょちょぎれそうでしたが

そこはこらえました みんなで１０周年をお祝いしました

１０年て本当にすごいと思います。

【DOUBLE １０th aniversaly 記念サイト↓↓↓】

今から約１０年前に初めてDOUBLEの曲を聴いて

レコード屋にアナログ探しに行ったり、

少ないお小遣いからCD買ったりして、

そりゃーもうかなりヘビロテで歌ってました。

クラブでカバーしたこともあったし、

オーディションで唄った事もあったし、そんな憧れの人です

本当に会いたかったアーティストに会えて

ココまで頑張ってきてよかったと思いました

TAKAKOさんと少しだけお話する時間もいただけたので、

私の１０年越しの思いを伝える事もできましたし

サインもいただきました 宝物です 超キレイで気さくにお話してくれて

本当に輝いてました 昨日の残り火いまだに消えません

[theaskew]

Takako Yamaguchi (Japanese b.1952, lives and works in Los Angeles), Quartetto II, 1986. Color etching, gold Leaf, trial proof, 23 1/2 x 23 3/4 in.

[1five1two]

'Catherine and Midnight'. Takako Yamaguchi. 1994.

[mybeingthere]

Takako Yamaguchi (born 1952, Okayama, Japan) is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, California.

Yamaguchi has been associated with the U.S.-based Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s. Her work embraces what has historically been disfavored by the formal reductivism of Euro-American abstraction and modernism. Decoration, fashion, beauty, sentimentality, empathy, and pleasure–forms and styles displaced by modernism and the contemporary artistic zeitgeist, are central aspects of Yamaguchi's painting practice. Through her proposed "poetics of dissent," Yamaguchi recuperates and mixes various visual traditions including Mexican Socialist Muralism, American Transcendentalism, Art Nouveau, and Japanese decorative arts. Her syncretic approach challenges the binary of an ostensibly race-neutral kind of International Modernism and the aesthetics of local, national and ethnic identity. Yamaguchi's "abstractions in reverse," a current that runs throughout the artist's practice, works backwards in the traditional historical framework of 20th century western art, from abstraction back towards illusionism. Her exploration of the semi-abstract, questions the artificial distinction between naturalism, abstraction, and craft.

[mysteroads]

Just bragging, but look at these NPCs I made! Behold! ALL the UA Third Years!

The UA Third Years in no particular order:

Name/Hero Name - M for male or F for female, "Quirk Name" quirk description.

Mirio Togata/Lemillion (canon character) - M, “Permeation” grants the user the ability to phase their body through all matter. ~Doesn’t participate in the Exam~

Tamaki Amajiki/Suneater (canon character) - M, “Manifest”  grants the user the ability to enhance their body parts with the characteristics of anything they consume.

Nejire Hado/Nejire Chan (canon character) - F, “Wave Motion”, grants the user the ability to convert her vitality into energy and release it in the form of exceptionally powerful spiral shockwaves, can fly*

Yuyu Haya/Diana (canon character) - F, “Electric Arrow”  grants the user the ability to create a bow and arrows from electricity gathered from the air around her. She gets very staticky on dry days.

Kazue Yokota/Illusionist - F, “Light Illusion” grants the user the power to generate and manipulate small to moderate sized illusions. Requires concentration.

Yōta Hidaka/Ricochet - M, “Kinetics” The power to store kinetic energy after being hit. Limit to how much he can store before it has to be released. (Toga stabs this one)

Naomi Ikeda/Lady Luck - F, “Luck” grants the user the ability to shift probability in their favor. They can’t do anything huge like survive jumping without a parachute, but quarter machines are theirs to toy with.

Yoshio Yamaguchi/Shield Hero - M, “Shield” grants the user the ability to create shields of various sizes and types.

Haruna Shinkawa/Soulsword - F, “Demon Weapon” grants the user the ability to shapeshift into a sword. Haruna specifically changes into a European style sword and is a fan of Arthurian Legends.

Juro Nishimura/Morph - M, “Body Builder” grants the user the ability to temporarily change his body to mimic any construction-style substance he touches (ex: concrete, steel, wood). Changes can last for up to an hour, but the more he changes, the faster he runs out of energy and the less time he has for each morph.

Hideyoshi Kanda/Roostertail - M, “Chicken” grants the user the ability to transform into a giant 10 foot rooster (think terror bird) with a sonic crow.

Chō Sugimura/Pause Button - F, “Time Stop” grants the user the ability to freeze time for thirty seconds. Recharge of one day required. 

Katsu Saitou/Tremors - M, “Earthquake” The ability to make the ground shake, can cause liquefaction under the right circumstances.

Yoshie Urano/Plasma Bolt - M, “Plasma Bolt” grants the user the ability to generate and manipulate plasma balls, including throwing energy blasts.

Yaeko Moriyama/Eleventh Metal - F, “Magnetic” grants the user the ability to mess with metal's polarity, as well as magnetize themselves. She can use this to “jump” long distances by pushing off metal and then pulling herself to a new metal by changing her and its polarity. Only works if the metal is heavier than she is.

Kōta Yukimura/Rōnin - M, “Stat Boost” grants the user the ability superhuman reflexes and increased stamina. Prefers to use a katana because aesthetic.

Reiko Hino/Misty - F, “Sublimation” grants the user the ability to transform into a fog-like form. The user still has to take in oxygen and cannot permeate through objects.

Akiko Yamauchi/Whirlwind - F, “Telekinesis” grants the user to move objects with her mind, but only objects weighing less than 20 lbs. She can pick up quite a few though and likes to make a vortex of ouch! around her.

Takako Shibuya/MoonBeam - M, “Laser Beam” grants the user the ability to shoot a laser beam from his third eye. The beam is a bright silvery white and can vary in temperature, from mild burn to welding-torch. Too much use can cause MoonBeam to go temporarily blind in his third eye.

Isamu Iwai/Featherweight - M, “Mass” grants the user the ability to change an object’s mass temporarily if he touches it. Mass returns to normal after five minutes.

Hayate Miyamoto/Aquifer - M, “Water” grants the user the ability to create water and, to some extent, manipulate water he did not create. 

 Ryoichi Miyake/Hermes - M, “Winged Feet” grants the user the ability to fly very fast with winged feet.

 Hachirou Hashiguchi/Wolfgang - M, “Wolf” grants the user the ability to blow giant gusts of wind with his mouth. (He’s also a wolf heteromorph and Winterheart’s big brother!)

Miki Amano/Slime Devil - F, “Slime” grants the user the ability to generate slime that can either stay slick, get sticky, or harden to trap villains. She can generate slime from anywhere, but she prefers to use her hands.

Naruhito Sano/Batman - M, “Bat” a partial bat mutation. Can’t fly fast but can still fly, very good at echolocation and can even knock someone out with a sound wave if he gets close enough. He has very sensitive hearing, but is nearsighted. 

Kiyo Takenaka/Delirium - F, “Fever Dream” can cause terrifying hallucinations when she meets her opponent’s eyes. A strong willed enough victim can break free, though.

Shizuko Inaba/LaVenus - F, “Venus Flytrap” grants the user the ability to grow giant venus flytraps from her fingers and arms. The stems can get very long, and the flytrap heads are the size of basketballs. The flytraps can move independently of her will. She can also create one giant flytrap.

 Kenzou Satō/ZoomZoom - M, “Speedster” grants the user the ability to run very very fast. They are not as fast as the Flash or Hawks, but he’s considered on par with Ingenium. 

Akane Arima/Comet - F, “Meteor Hands” grants the user the ability to create bowling ball sized rocks, set them on fire, and throw them with incredible speed and accuracy.

Sumire Fukui/Obscurus  - F, grants the user the ability to create a field of darkness around themselves up to thirty feet diameter. They can see in the dark, but it cancels out all other types of vision.

Akihito Yoshino/Tarantella  - M, “Tarantula” grants the user the ability to use thermal vision, web creation (from their wrists) for sticky nets and ropes, and climb sheer walls. Since they’re a spider heteromorph, they have six arms, extra eyes, and is extra strong.

Shichirou Iwamoto/Captain Kangaroo - M, “Kangaroo” can do everything a kangaroo can, BIG muscles and can punch your lights out. Kangaroo heteromorph, of course.

Shinsuke Shimizu/Catscratch - M, “Scratch” grants the user the ability of silver fingernails that can lengthen to a foot long and can cut through steel.

 Osamu Ōshiro/Freeze Frame - M “Finger Frame” grants the user the ability to freeze something just by catching it between the square of their fingers, like he was making a frame around it. Freeze as in stop, not as in cold, and the fingers must be square and touching. The farther away and the more things caught between the frame, the harder the frozen things fight to start again.

Sayuri Hashiguchi/Winterheart - F, “Cold Breath” grants the user the ability to breathe freezing air and snow. Basically the exact opposite of breathing fire. (She’s Big Bad Wolf’s twin sister, but she’s not a heteromorph!)

Masato Yoshida/Bones - M, “Bone Armor” grants the user the ability to create armor made of super dense bone. He can even bounce bullets off it. Has been likened to an armadillo to tease him.

Yuu Seki/Cable - F, “Steel Medusa”  grants the user the ability to manipulate her hair made of steel cables.

Akito Maeda/X-Ray - F, “Identifying Eye” grants the user the ability to see weak points in structures and enemies. However, she herself has no extra strength or speed, and her vision can be overwhelmed.

Daigo Kanemaru/Porcupine - M, “Needle Spit” Can spit various amounts of needles of different sorts and lengths.

[thunderstruck9]

Takako Yamaguchi (Japanese, 1952), The Fire Next Time, 2004. Oil and bronze leaf on canvas, 36 x 46 in.

[arinewman7]

Connoisseur of Chaos

Takako Yamaguchi

oil and bronze leaf on paper, 2000

[dankolara]

Takako Yamaguchi, The Fire Next Time, oil and bronze leaf on canvas, 2004

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Takako Yamaguchi

Born 1952.

[bakedbeansontoast]

Takako Yamaguchi (1952-)

Takako Yamaguchi (b.1952)

Untitled, 1999

Innocent Bystander #5, 1988

Victoria and Whiskey, 1995.

Yamaguchi re-purposes and incorporates Global modernist styles, including Art Nouveau, American Romanticism and Mexican Muralism. She infuses them with a "poetics of resistance", contradicting the perceived ownership of these cultural styles and elements and reimagining them with images from her Japanese heritage, symbols of feminine beauty, cats and geometric patterns. What results is a cultural blurring of styles, crossing the borders and "pre-determined ideals of art history and creating an alternate aesthetic which questions the artistic zeitgeist and intentionally places her paintings at the edges of any ethnic or temporal categorisation.

Represented by Ortuza Projects, New York.