Ikko Tanaka

Ikko Tanaka
The 8th Sankei Kanze Noh
1961
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
Hanae Mori
1978
screenprint (advertising poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
Nihon Buyo
1981
screenprint (tour poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
Green and Water Campaign
1982
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
Morisawa Photo-Typesetting Company
1986
screenprint (advertising poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
Issey Miyake
1987
lithograph
(advertising poster with photo by Irving Penn)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
Issey Miyake
1987
lithograph
(advertising poster with photo by Irving Penn)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
Affichiste Ikko Tanaka
1988
screenprint (exhibition poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
NOMAD
Nouvelle Organisation Maїmé and Denise
1988
screenprint (advertising poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
Isaac Mizrahi
ca. 1990
lithograph
(advertising poster with photo by Irving Penn)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
Graphic Art Exhibition - Ikko Tanaka
1990
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
Issey Miyake
1992
lithograph
(advertising poster with photo by Irving Penn)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
Issey Miyake
1992
lithograph
(advertising poster with photo by Irving Penn)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
International Design Center: Nagoya
ca. 1995
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
Issey Miyake
1996
lithograph
(advertising poster with photo by Irving Penn)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ikko Tanaka
Issey Miyake
1997
lithograph
(advertising poster with photo by Irving Penn)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

from Idyll I

A Goatherd perswades the Shepherd Thyrsis to bewail Daphnis who dy'd for Love, and gives him a large Cup and Goat for a reward. The scene Sicily, about the River Himera.

I dare not, faith I dare not pipe at Noon,

Affraid of Pan, for when his Hunting's done,

And He lyes down to sleep by purling streams,

He's very touchy if we break his dreams:

But Thyrsis (for you know fair Daphnis pains,

And singst the best of all the tuneful Swains)

Let's go and sit beneath yon Myrtle boughs,

Where stand Priapus, and the Nymphs repose,

Where thy Hut's built and many an Acorn grows,

And there if thou wilt pipe as sweet a Lay

As when you strove with Crome and wan the day,

Ile give Thee my best Goat, a lovely white;

She suckles Two, yet fills Three Pails at night;

Besides a Cup with sweetest Wax o're lay'd,

A fine Two-handled Pot, and newly made:

Still of the Tool it smells, it neatly shines,

And round the brim a creeping Ivy twines

With Crocus mixt; where Kids do seem to brouze,

The Berryes crop, and wanton in the bough:

Within a Woman sits, a work divine,

Thro envious vails her dazling Beautys shine,

And all around neat Woers offer Love,

They strive, they quarrel, but they cannot move:

Now smiling here, now there she casts her Eyes,

And now to These, now Those her mind applyes:

Whilst They, their Eyes swoln big with watchful pain,

Still Love, still beg, but all, poor hearts, in vain.

Near These a Fisher on white Rocks is set,

He seems to gather up to cast his Net:

He stand as labouring, and his Limbs appear

All stretcht, and in his face mix hope and fear:

The Nerves in's Neck are swoln, look firm and strong,

All-tho He's old, and fit for one that's Young:
Next him ripe Grapes in blushing Clusters twine,

And a fair Boy sits by to keep the Vine:

On either side a Fox; one widely gapes,
He eyes the Vines and spoils the ripening Grapes:

The other minds the Skrip, resolv'd to seize

And rob the Fondling of his Bread and Cheese;

While He sets idly busy, neatly tyes

Soft tender twigs, and frames a Net for Flyes;
Pleas'd with his vain designes, a careless Boy,

And more than Grapes or Skrip he minds the Toy.

Round all a Creeping Woodbine doth aspire,

A curious sight, i'me sure you must admire:

'Twas Calydons, but when he crost the Seas

I bought it for a Goat, and Rammel Cheese:

It never toucht my Lips, unsoild, and new,

And this I freely will present to you,

If you will sing how in the shady Grove

Young Daphnis pin'd, and how he dy'd for Love,

I am in Earnest, I will love Thee long,

And surely mind the favour of thy song.

– Theocritus (early 3rd century BC), translated by Thomas Creech (1684)