Now available for pre-order and expected to arrive mid-May, two brand new signed posters featuring some classic Trevor Brown artwork!
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| "Medical Play" | "Girl on Toilet" |
Both posters are A2 sized and will be signed.
Welcome to AkaTako - your Berlin, Germany, based source for underground and hard to find Japanese art: signed art books, limited edition prints and posters, licensed enamel pins and t-shirts, artist produced postcards and mini books, original drawings and paintings, and lots more. We ship worldwide!
Not sure where to start? Check out the more popular artists and items just below. A bit further down the page is a news feed of everything going on with AkaTako.
Not sure where to start? Check out the more popular artists and items just below. A bit further down the page is a news feed of everything going on with AkaTako.
POPULAR ITEMS
THE LATEST NEWS
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As part of last year's "Creation Project 2014", artists submitted works to be used for the covers of hand made Tohoku style notebooks. Each one was made in workshops for disabled persons in the Northeast part of Japan.
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| Fuco Ueda Tohoku Style Notebook | Takato Yamamoto Tohoku Style Notebook |
Click the images or titles above for more photos and information.
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New, expanded edition of Hajime Sorayama's "Sexy Robot" series, "Sexy Robot: Gigantes" has over 1000 images in it with a more comprehensive look into his artwork history. All copies are signed.
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| "Sexy Robot: Gigantes" cover | "Sexy Robot: Gigantes" inside page |
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Brand new "Funny Girl" watercolor paintings by Shintaro Kago have just been added. There's twelve smaller ones and four larger size paintings.
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Just released in Japan, Volume 4 of Sousakuzine is now available for pre-order on AkaTako! Featuring the works of and interviews with Etsuko Egawa, Screaming Mad George, Kazuhiro Tsuji, and more.
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Click the images above for more photos and information. Magazine should arrive to AkaTako April 21 +/-.
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Just arrived, an older limited edition Toshio Saeki book "Picture Scroll of Pathos". Limited to only 1000 pieces, numbered and signed inside the front cover too!
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Two brand new mini-books by Shintaro Kago have just been added. "Pretty Girl Picture Book" is full of sweet girls with exploding heads and some Christmas theme paintings. "Funeral Service 100 Famous Views" is a monochrome book of twisted Japanese funeral rites.
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Both books are signed and self-published by Shintaro Kago. Click the images above fore more photos and details.
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Seven brand new original watercolor paintings by Shintaro Kago are now available. A couple of them have already sold so don't wait too long to pick out your favorite!
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Click the images above for details and to buy.
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The old "Kinbaku Charm" category has been renamed to "Cell Phone Charms" so that it can include other styles of charms which may not be kinbaku related. The URL is new so please be sure to make a note of it!
For now, there are only cell phone charms by Kitanya Design Factory and Shintaro Kago. Hopefully some new ones will be added in the future.
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Two new books of black and white illustrations by Asaji Muroi are now available. Both were self-published by the artist in the early 1990s but are in great condition and signed! "My Imagination" is a smaller size and has older, more experimental drawings. "Venus with a Dog Collar" is larger format and is devoted to the idea of woman-dog.
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| "My Imagination" | "Venus with a Dog Collar" |
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