This is  a reprint of the iconic 1967 debut publication. Titled Posthumous Works, which is characteristic for the prankster who famously found notoriety from his own illustration of a false obituary at age 29, advertising his own death.  This book followed, which is the perfect portal into the artist’s hallucinogenic world, often absurd and bursting with colour.  It gathers up his commercial work commissioned by hot springs and Shuji Terayama’s independent theatre troupe Tenjou Sajiki, as well as his own independent paintings and augmented photographs of a mock-funeral held for himself.  It is utterly disorientating, colliding the worlds of east and west to create a new visual language for Japan that has been perpetuated through musical collaboration with likes of Haruomi Hosono (Cochin Moon most obviously), Miles Davis (Agharta), Pharoah Sanders (Save Our Children), Eitetsu Hayashi and loads more.  Heavily collaged, laced with humour and always blurring the boundaries between cultural traditions, Tadanori is without a doubt one of the most important artists of the post-war generations