Eikoh Hosoe; Yukio Mishima; Yokoo Tadanori
Tokyo: Shueisha, 1971.

The artistic collaboration between Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe and writer Yukio Mishima. First published in 1961, this second edition, significantly revised by the authors, and with illustrations by Yokoo Tadanori, was published shortly after Mishima’s suicide by seppuku, Barakei / Ordeal by Roses remains one of the defining photobooks of the 20th century, highlighting both Hosoe’s skill as a photographer and providing one of the most intimate visual portraits of one of Japan’s most important literary figures. Also features butoh dancer Hijikata Tatsumi.