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Nihon Buyo 

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A traditional Japanese dance performance is being advertised on this banner at the University of California. A female figure with Japanese hair emerges from an inorganic geometric pattern created by the inclusion of red circles and black semicircles in the middle. It is totally made of straightforward two-dimensional patterns of circles, triangles, and squares. With simplistic depictions of geishas, the poster demonstrates IkkoTanaka's combination of modernist ideas and traditional Japanese culture.