
I was born on the same day as Helen Keller, June 27, to my father's younger brother and his wife, and adopted by the main Yokoo family. My adoptive parents told me they found me under the bridge. Since small, I often lay beneath the stars imagining my destiny; and I likened myself to a firefly, which twinkles like a star. I know clearly that an invisible guardian spirit and the Rat of the Chinese zodiac have been my companions on my long voyage. ぼくはヘレン・ケラー女史と同じ6月27日に父の弟夫婦の間に生まれて、横尾家に養子として迎えられた。養父母はぼくを橋の下で拾ってきたと言った。小さい頃から星空を仰ぎながらぼくはぼくの運命についていつも空想していた。そして星のように点滅するホタルに自分を譬えた。見えない守護霊と子の年のネズミがぼくの長い航海の伴侶であることをぼくは知っている。
YOKOO Tadanori 横尾 忠則
- Collection of
- Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
- Title
- I was born on the same day as Helen Keller, June 27, to my father's younger brother and his wife, and adopted by the main Yokoo family. My adoptive parents told me they found me under the bridge. Since small, I often lay beneath the stars imagining my destiny; and I likened myself to a firefly, which twinkles like a star. I know clearly that an invisible guardian spirit and the Rat of the Chinese zodiac have been my companions on my long voyage.
- Artist Name
- YOKOO Tadanori
- Year
- 2001
- Category
- Painting&Print
- Material / Technique
- Acrylic on canvas
- Acquisition date
- 2022
- Accession number
- 2022-00-0011-000
- MOT Collection Search
- https://mot-collection-search.jp/shiryo/4793/
Other items of Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (8084)

Album of Natural History
ONCHI Koshiro
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

After the Great Kanto Earthquake
KANOKOGI Takeshiro
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

D-82-2
SUWA Naoki
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Sisters
IKEBE Hitoshi
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

BIRDMAN: Dessin of Terrorism 2
OKAMOTO Shinjiro
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Peony
ONOSATO Toshinobu
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

I Wonder If Somebody Would Buy Me.
IKEBE Hitoshi
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
](https://museumcollection.tokyo/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/13107.jpg)
Works of Koshimizu Susumu, an Album
KOSHIMIZU Susumu
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Touch "Body-42"
YOSHIDA Katsuro
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

joint (ball)
TOMII Motohiro
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

SHIMA Kuniichi, 1977-01-16, Totsuka
ANZAI Shigeo
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Esquisse for flat works 1
NOMURA Kazuhiro
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
](https://museumcollection.tokyo/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/13130.jpg)
Works of Koshimizu Susumu, an Album
KOSHIMIZU Susumu
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

PN Red 1, 2
SAITO Yoshishige
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
![作品画像:8つの作品(2)[『高橋秀版画集』より]](https://museumcollection.tokyo/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/19523.jpg)
Eight Works (2) [from "SHU TAKAHASHI"]
TAKAHASHI Shu
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

The Artist and His Family
MORI Yoshio
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo