April 7, 1945.

© Atsushi Adachi

April 7, 1945.

Size: 272 x 1328 x 204 mm

Material: Newspaper (August 8, 1940 to April 7, 1945, Japan)

Production year: 2025

The motif is the battleship “Yamato,” which is the largest “battleship” in history built by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and is also a weapon that was “deified” after the war due to the trend of the times and its fate, as a motif.
The materials are for the starboard side of the hull from the launch date of Yamato on August 8, 1940 to the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 8, to the entry into service of the Combined Fleet in 1941. The center of the hull was from the battleship Yamato Combined Fleet flagship on February 12, 1942 until the end of November 1944, when it returned to the Battle of Midway, Mariana, Leyte, and Samar, and back to Kure. Then, from 1945/1, when the port side of the hull continued to wait inland, preparations for a naval special attack operation, decided on a venue special attack that would be the first step in the “100 million special attack,” and newspapers from 1945/4/7 (Sat), which sank in the fateful Battle of Bonomisaki, were used to produce it. (The newspaper materials used were used in a variety of ways, from Asahi and Mainichi, etc., to newspapers from other regions.)
The title of the work “April 7, 1945.” is the date of the sinking of the battleship Yamato in the Battle of Bonomisaki.