Disinfection at the Port
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
Description
Disinfection stations at ports and transit points were a feature of the immediate postwar repatriation, as Japanese authorities attempted to prevent the spread of disease from the mainland. This print records the procedure with Kitaoka's characteristic documentary eye: figures processed through a bureaucratic system, the individual reduced to a body being treated. The port setting places the scene at the literal threshold between the world left behind and the country being returned to — a liminal space given physical, procedural form.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Disinfection at the Port was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Disinfection at the Port depicts seascapes.