RedEyeくんと一緒につくった「
Celebrate People's History」のための赤瀾会ポスターについて。
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Josh MacPheeの記事を転載。近藤千浪さんについてすこし書かせてもらいました。
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I've now been organizing the Celebrate People's History poster series
for over 15 years, and have printed almost 80 different posters. In
order to add another layer of depth to the project, I have been asking
the poster artists and designers to send me texts about what inspired
them, sketches, and source photos. I hope to post these insights into
specific posters of a semi-regular basis.
This first post is about the recently printed Seki Ran Kai poster,
designed and written by Keisuke Narita and illustrated by Red Eye.
Keisuke, one of the driving forces behind Tokyo's
Irregular Rhythm Asylum, sent me the following text about the poster:
This piece is dedicated to our dear comrade Chinami Kondo, who passed
away on June 20, 2010.
Born in Tokyo in 1941, Chinami was a courageous
activist and organizer who fought for women’s rights and democracy. As
the daughter of Magara Kondo and Kenji Kondo, she was also the caretaker
of important documents from the anarchist movement’s earliest days at
the dawn of the twentieth century. These documents have been preserved
and safeguarded until today thanks to her. Magara Kondo, the daughter of
the socialist Toshihiko Sakai, was a member of the Sekirankai (Red Wave
Society) and trailblazing feminist activist. Kenji had been a comrade
of Sakae Osugi and Noe Ito, and he continued to organize as an anarchist
after the war.
In 2003 around the time the war on Iraq began, young anarchists who
took inspiration from the Sekirankai’s courageous protests made replicas
of this Sekirankai flag and carried them in the streets at antiwar
demos. Chinami was there with them, and she continued to carry the flag
at antiwar, May Day, and countless other demos. Although she was
effervescent and keen to dance when sharing drinks with friends, she
walked quietly at demos. With each step, she must have thought not only
of her comrades but also of her parents and their friends. Her quietly
marching figure was beautiful to behold.
And here is the source image for the illustration:
Keisuke's poster can be purchased for only $4 right
HERE! You can check out all the Celebrate People's History posters
HERE.
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