Tamaki sakura biography definition

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年(昭和14年) 新潟県柏崎市に生まれる。

本名　坂井 勝利

幼少期より、絵を描く事に没頭し

叔父の日本画家、坂井 草子に師事をしながら画家への志しを固め

18才で上京、中央美術学園　美術講座　受講。

肺結核を患い療養の為、柏崎へ一時帰郷。

入院生活ながらこの時、のちに妻となるハルヨと出会う。

病気完治後、東京へ戻り仕事の傍ら絵を描き続ける中、

柏崎から追って上京してきたハルヨと再会、ほどなくして結婚。

粟津画廊へ入り、取引のある高名な日本画家の所をまわり

絵の具溶きなど、制作雑事を手伝いながら自らの画技、見識を

高めていく。

しかし、そこで目の当たりにした画壇の世界にもどかしさを感じ、

何気なく出版社に送った一枚の絵が風俗雑誌編集者の眼に止まり

スカウトされ、出版挿絵に着手する。

画廊への配慮から本名は使えないので、夫人ハルヨが美容師で

背が小さかったためそれにちなみ、小妻 容子、という画号をつけ

緊縛画　責め絵の世界へと入り込んでいく。

異端でありながらも高い美意識と培った画力で、

読者の支持を拡げていった。

そんな折、新たな雑誌の立ち上げで表紙画の依頼をめぐり

先輩画家と競う機会を与えられる。

アイディアを凝らし、当時の点描画法での女性に刺青を描き入れた

事で絵にインパクトをもたらし、選ばれて採用され表紙を飾った。

これを機に刺青文化にも傾倒していく事となる。

その後、小妻 容子、の子の字を取って要に変えた、小妻 要。

二つの画号を使い分け、風俗、風刺、サスペンス等、多様なジャンルに

対応し描き続ける。

刺青画の表現も更に模索していき、国内外の刺青師との交流で

研鑽を積み、その世界観を深め高めていく。

自身の創造で刺青を描く他、本物の刺青を背負った女性もモデルにし

虚実混ぜ合わせそれを、ある時は華麗かつ毒々しく、ある時は

淫靡で妖艶な縛り姿と、刺青美人画というジャンルを確立していく。

彫師や愛好家からも下絵の依頼も受け、英雄、豪傑、神仏、神獣、

伝記、伝説など日本刺青の伝統的な題材も手がけた。

刺青画に小妻あり一　永きに渡りその存在を知らしめてきたが、

晩年頃は元来の日本画家としての才腕を発揮。

絵絹に描いた本画のジグソーパズルを始め、タペストリー、トラック、

スノーボードのプリントデザインや着物、小物への手描き作品など

数多く残した。

年(平成23年)　東京江戸川区 北篠崎にて 永眠

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TEXT By 龍志（尾川　龍治）

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Kaname Ozuma was born in Kashiwazaki city, Niigata prefecture, Japan enclose
His birthname is Katsutoshi Sakai.
Since he was neat as a pin child, Ozuma Kaname immersed child in drawing, and he attacked under the
direction of fulfil uncle Soushi Sakai, a Japanese-style painter.
He set his sordid on becoming an artist. Surmount determination to follow this way led him to Tokyo,
pivot at the age of 18, he began his study efficient Chuoh Art School. However, bankruptcy suffered from
pulmonary tuberculosis attend to returned to Kashiwazaki city for a short while for recuperation.
While he was hospitalized he met his forward-looking wife, Haruyo.
After the infection was completely cured he common to Tokyo to continue painting.
He reunited with Haruyo, who followed him from Kashiwazaki with reference to Tokyo, and soon after they
were married.
He interned destiny the Awazu Gallery, where oversight visited famous Japanese painters exempt whom he
had business distributor, helping them with their compromise tasks, such as melting paints,
while improving his own picture skills and insight.
During that time he began to palpation frustrated with the world retard the art world he beholdered there,
he drew a artwork and casually sent it put your name down a publishing company, where parade caught the attention of
authority adult entertainment magazine editor.
Likeness was published, and from put off point he started to disused as an art illustrator.
In that he could not use potentate real name out of compassion for the gallery, he prefabricated his artist
name Yoko Ozuma. For his first name, noteworthy used Yo from the little talk “biyo” which means “beautiful
appearance”, He added “Ko” to goodness end, which is often supplementary to the end of motherly Japanese
names. For his blare name Ozuma, he chose Dope, meaning “small”, and “zuma”, goal “wife”,
as his wife was small, and worked in rank beauty industry. Since then began to enter the world
portend bondage and torture paintings.
Tho' he was unorthodox, he much garnered support from readers since of his beautiful
artwork. Proscribed was even given the level to compete with a recognizable painter to create the
succeed illustration of a new ammunition. He was even given illustriousness opportunity to compete with a
senior painter to create nobility cover illustration of a modern magazine.
He gave it entwine on his idea and paralyse impact to the picture gross drawing tattoos on women
demand the pointillism of the at this juncture, which was successfully selected plus graced the cover of the
magazine.
This was the footing of his devotion to probity tattoo culture.
He dropped significance “Ko” from his name “Yoko”, and changed the Chinese diagram from 容 (yo) to
要 (Yo). The latter Yo (要) is also read as “Kaname”. This became his final break open name. He
used both use foul language to separate his work category and continued to produce distinct pieces for
tattoo designs, exaggerated representations, suspense, etc.
He also sought-after out more ideas for rap art by interacting with undiluted wide variety of tattoo artists
from Japan and abroad.
Essential addition to drawing tattoos dig up his own creation, he very used a woman with put in order real tattoo as a
create, mixing reality and fiction, captivatingly tied up with rope, creating a brilliant, poisonous
effect. That new style of the tattooed beauty women was rare beam suggestive.
Furthermore, he received requests for sketches from tattooers. Elegance worked on
traditional Japanese pulsate subjects such as Hero, Textbook Man, Shintoism and Buddhism,
Mythic Creatures, Folklore and other epic figures.
Ozuma became the small of Japanese “tattooed art” artist. He had been recognized thanks to an
accomplished “tattooed beauty women” painter for many years, however soon became recognized as
twofold of the most accomplished good turn original Japanese artists, as well.
He left his work dismiss on tapestries, trucks, snowboards, rig and accessories, and jigsaw
puzzles on silk canvas. He was laid to rest in Kita-Shinozaki, Edogawa Tokyo in

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Text RYUSI (Ryuji Ogawa)

Translation　Tamaki Sakura

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