For her Artist’s Choice Yayoi Kusama has selected Ishikawa Takuboki (1886–1912) was a Japanese poet and novelist reknowned for his tanka (traditional Japanese poems of thirty-one syllables). He lived in poverty and died of a chronic illness when only twenty-six years old. His first collected poems were published in 1905, followed by serial novels published in Tokyo newspapers and the first collection of tanka in 1910.
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has pursued her principal themes of infinity, self-image, sexuality and compulsive repetition since she took the New York art world by storm in the late 1950s with her Infinity Nets –...
