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My Mother 1981: Dream of Fetus ; Flower Trainわたしのお母さん 1981：胎児の夢　花電車

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ID
NOT8
Title
My Mother 1981: Dream of Fetus ; Flower Train
Date
1981
Size
Japanese B4 (257 × 364 mm)
Medium
Paper
Main Language
Japanese
Overview
Creation note for My Mother in 1981. It is unknown whether it's for the premiere or the performance in New York.
On the second page, Kazuo writes that he referred to Shinobu Orikuchi's novel "Book of the Dead". Ikuko is Kazuo's younger sister who hit by a train and died in 1914.
4 sheets of paper in total / Colour: Black (pen and pencil), Red, Green / Text only

Some words to be found:
page 1: Dream of Fetus ; Pigs' breast ; Meeting my mother ; Black necromancer ; Prayer ; Ozen [table]
page 2: Flower train ; Ikuko's words ; Flower train ; Ah, it's cold ; It is my mother's scream, it is Ikuko's warble ; Nightingale ; I'm sorry
page 3: Flatfish dance (under the sun and the moon) ; White coral ; A flounder is swimming in my body ; Buddhas' procession
page 4: Sun and moon ; My mother carrying ashes on her back, ashes carrying my mother on its back ; Extreme joy
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