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Gozo Yoshimasu • Tamio Shiraishi • Cammisa Buerhaus

Live: Gozo Yoshimasu, Tamio Shiraishi and Cammisa Buerhaus performance from The Wire Magazine on Vimeo.

In 2012, the musician Aki Onda shot a video of the Japanese poet and artist Gozo Yoshimasu performing with Tamio Shiraishi and Cammisa Buerhaus at New York City's Abrons Arts Center.

Active since the 60s, Onda describes Yoshimasu as a "poet/performer/photographer/filmmaker", saying "He is currently the most well known poet in Japan and has received national prizes. Yet he is the most provocative enfant terrible in the field and keeps producing a large body of work in different media. The Wire's readers might know him because of his long term relationship with Masayuki Takayanagi and some other free jazz legends, which he discussed in an interview that I did with him. But, other than that, his work is still largely unknown in the music field."

Gozo Yoshimasu will be showing his films at Cafe Oto on 27 March, and opening an exhibition, As Though Tatooing On My Mind, at Daiwa Foundation from 1 April.

Video shot by Aki Onda and edited by Fields Harrington.