Toshihko has written on the verso of this photograph in both Japanese and English the words in the poem, e.g., illusion - death - winter - rain. Anti-Illusion 2 is a cropped image of Ant-Illusion 1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This piece is a cropped image of Anti-Illusion 1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work was probably originally typeset using a Japanese 'typwriter.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to the artist, this colored photograph of an original collage constitutes the original work of art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Toshihiko is both a visual poet and Jazz music critic but there are no visual poems in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The dating of this work as 1954 is based upon its identification among the mass of Japanese ideograms that constitute the image of this drawing. The artist's name, address and title of this piece are rubberstamped on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title 'Silence' is written in English and Japanese on the verso of the photograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the same photograph as the unmounted one but because of the image enlargement it does not have as much optical effects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.