Home → Illustrations → The Importance of Death | shumawa (February, 1969) The Importance of Death | shumawa (February, 1969) Dominant Colour(s) #5F7F70 | Viridian Green (Green) #8E5818 | Hawaiian Tan (Brown) #2A2A2A | Nero (Black) Assigned ID bas1000 Artist Bagyi Aung Soe Image Type Periodical Illustration Series 1960s Accompanying Title The Importance of Death Keyword(s) Card(s), Cigar(s), cigarette(s) & pipe(s), Face(s), Female figure(s), Heart(s), Mole(s), Pot(s) & vase(s), Signed “Aung Soe” [B], Signed “sun”, Tradition, Western usage(s), Subjects Humans, Signs & Symbols, Sustenance, Things, Publication shumawa Publication Date February 1969 Place published Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) Image Notes Page 5 Image Source Universities’ Central Library Image Credits Image courtesy of Universities’ Central Library; Title translated by Kyaw K. Lwin Citation bas1000 (shumawa, February 1969) by Bagyi Aung Soe from aungsoeillustrations.org, used under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Accessed on 27 April 2025. All images in publication Defining Oneself on a Summer Night | shumawa (February, 1969) The Full Moon and Stars | shumawa (February, 1969) The Importance of Death | shumawa (February, 1969) Is it Peculiar? | shumawa (February, 1969) The Gallows of a Poem | shumawa (February, 1969) A Soldier’s Poem | shumawa (February, 1969) The Call of War | shumawa (February, 1969) Last updated on 2 Oct 2020, 10.00am