Tanaka has been working on the series “Sixteen Erotic Figures (十六恥漢図)”. In this series, a woman obsessed wit sexual desire shows a symbolic gesture of mudra with her hands. Plants and flowers taken from the copies of Kano style paintings are scattered around her.
One work is depicting a woman eating potato chips. He found that the model was completely out of conscious when she was eating it. She was just following her desire.