Necrophantasmagoria Vanitas — Takato Yamamoto
ネクロファンタスマゴリア ヴァニタス
This is the third printing, dated 30 June 2024, of the expanded and newly designed edition first issued on 31 July 2015 by Editions Treville. The 2024 date refers solely to the print run; the expanded edition itself dates from 2015. This copy is signed inside the front cover.
About this edition
The original Necrophantasmagoria appeared in 2012 as a 96-page volume. The 2015 expanded edition increased the page count to 104 and added material that had not appeared in the standard trade release: the rediscovered underdrawing for "The Magician," previously thought lost; the newly completed painting "DEATH II" and its underdrawing; and thirty "Vanitas" works originally created for the special limited edition. The book was also given a new dust jacket, a sleek black satin hardcover with silver foil-printed endpapers, and new high-definition printing throughout.
The full contents comprise 17 underdrawings of new paintings, 22 full-colour new paintings, 6 underdrawings of earlier paintings, 6 full-colour earlier paintings, and 32 monochrome new drawings.
About Takato Yamamoto
Born in 1960, Takato Yamamoto developed the "Ukiyo-e Pop" style into what he later termed "Heisei Decadence" — a mode of illustration drawing on Edo-period woodblock aesthetics and recasting them through a sensibility attuned to decay, eroticism, and ornamental violence. He has produced illustrations for aesthetic, fantasy, erotic, and historical novels, as well as book cover art and commercial commissions. He is a member of the International Ukiyo-e Society.
Other works by Takato Yamamoto
Further titles are available in our Art & Illustration Books collection.
