Shuji Terayama  House of C

ats hard cover version w/outer box 

Description

A cat staring at you, a cat smiling amidst flowers, a cat playing with a beautiful woman.... This is a collection of cat cards selected from antique postcards, mainly from the Victorian era, with the theme of cats. The clean and bewitching beauty of the cats selected from collector Yoko Suetsugu's collection is indescribable. The cat cards are like a legacy of how much cats have been loved by mankind, and speak more eloquently than mere photographs. The book opens with a quote from Baudelaire, "Come, beautiful cat...," and the text includes poems by Sakutaro, Saijo Hachiju, and others. At the end of the book, Shuji Terayama writes "Liner notes written by a cat detective and a girl without a tail," and the book is composed to love the poetic existence of cats from various angles.