Self-produced by Hikari Shimoda is a set of ten lovely postcards. Packaged in a blue envelope, custom printed, and with a cardstock circle that is signed and dated too!
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Welcome to AkaTako - your Berlin, Germany, based source for underground and hard to find Japanese art: signed art books, limited edition prints and posters, licensed enamel pins and t-shirts, artist produced postcards and mini books, original drawings and paintings, and lots more. We ship worldwide!
Not sure where to start? Check out the more popular artists and items just below. A bit further down the page is a news feed of everything going on with AkaTako.
Not sure where to start? Check out the more popular artists and items just below. A bit further down the page is a news feed of everything going on with AkaTako.
POPULAR ITEMS
THE LATEST NEWS
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Two original paintings from the "Medical Fun" book - Pink Transfusion and Twinstars - plus two hard to find books: Alice Through The Looking Glass and Temple of Blasphemy.
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| Pink Transfusion painting | Twinstars painting | Alice Through the Looking Glass book | Temple of Blasphemy |
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A beautiful and surreal book filled with full-color photos of Mari Shimizu's expertly crafted dolls. A must have for any ball-joint doll enthusiast!
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Just in, a set of eleven postcards featuring the photography of Kenichi Murata "Eleven Sleeping Princesses". Front card is hand by Kenichi Murata.
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Click for more details and images of each individual card.
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Two brand new Takato Yamamoto items featuring Alice works from "Rib of a Hermaphrodite" and "Coffin of a Chimera". The clear file features "Alice's Door" and the poster features "Alice's Choice". Both items are hand signed in gold marker!
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| "Alice's Door" clear file | "Alice's Choice" poster |
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Now available for pre-order and set to arrive at AkaTako in mid-April, the special combined edition of Maruograph DX. Contains DX I + DX II + 6 bonus pages. Each edition is signed and numbered by Suehiro Maruo! Numbers 1-30 include an original drawing and numbers 31-300 do not.
Additional photos and details coming soon!
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With today's arrival of Maruograph DX II, both volumes of Suehiro Maruo's new, expanded edition of Maruograph is now in stock!
| Maruograph DX I | Maruograph DX II |
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Four more items by Trevor Brown that are pretty hard to find are now up and available to purchase. More photos and details at each individual item.
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| Supersuckers Record $95 | Venetian Snares Doll Doll Doll CD $40 | Venetian Snares Find Candace CD $40 | Suture Arts Journal Vol 1 $75 |
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AkaTako is slowly working through a box filled with rare Trevor Brown items. There's more to come this week but these ones are available now:
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| Bloodsucker record $55 | Taboo Vol 1-9 $60 | Teddy Bear Operation puzzle $100 |
Updates will be added to the home page so you can easily see what has come in!
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New, expanded editions of Suehiro Maruo's timeless monograph of works are now available for pre-order. DX I will hopefully be shipping within a week or two and DX II should ship in less than a month.
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| Suehiro Maruo Maruograph DX I | Suehiro Maruo Maruograph DX II |
There will also be a special collector's edition that combines DX I & II into a single, large book. More details to come later!