Eikoh Hosoe
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Eikoh Hosoe was a Japanese photographer and filmmaker who emerged in the experimental arts movement of post-World War II Japan. Hosoe is best known for his dark, high contrast, black and white photogr
Hosoe in 1989
Man and Woman #24 by Eikoh Hosoe, Honolulu Museum of Art
Hosoe in 2005
Yukio Mishima
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Kimitake Hiraoka, known by his pen name Yukio Mishima, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, short story writer, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated
Eikoh Hosoe
…and mythology, while others are nearly abstract, such as Man and Woman # 24, from 1960. He was professionally and personally affiliated with the writer Yukio Mishima and experimental artists of the 1960s such as the dancer Tatsumi Hijikata, though his work extends to a diversity of subjects. His photography is not…
Mishima in 1955
Mishima's self-portrait drawn in junior high school
Mishima at age 19, with his sister Mitsuko at age 16 (on 9 September 1944)
Mishima with his cat (Asahigraph, 12 May 1948 issue). He was known as a cat-lover. Yōko (his wife) was jealous of his pet cat, and disliked him petting it.