Shirt 3

Shirt 3, edition 11 of 11 from 1980 — the final impression from a very small edition of just eleven copies — is among Kaneko's earliest documented prints, produced when he was thirty-one and his graphic language was still developing. The tiny edition size of 11 reflects the limited commercial scale of his early career before his work reached the mass market. A Western shirt (as opposed to a kimono) as subject demonstrates his interest from the beginning in the dialogue between Japanese traditional objects and contemporary global material culture.