Death Book

First edition of Death Book by Toshio Saeki (2023)

This is the fourth in Baron's Death Book series 

First impression 

Large format hardback in new condition 

Comes with a dust jacket 

Published by Baron

About

The fourth edition of The Death Book is dedicated to Japanese artist, Toshio Saeki’s (1945- 2019) archive of rarely published illustration work, that explores scenes of violence, brutality, horror and what lies beneath the surface of Japanese culture.

Saeki’s work is notable for  combining traditional Shunga and Yōkai styles with elements of Western art and is characterised by eroticism, death and gore, questioning Japanese ideology and expansionism. Historian’s often describe Saeki’s work as being closely related to the Japanese cultural phenomenon ‘Erotic, Grotesque, Nonsense’ (ero, guro, nansensu).

 The book also contains an introduction by historian  Euphemia Franklin.