Oki Shoji: That’s Wonderful Eros Japan!

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Oki Shoji: That’s Wonderful Eros Japan!

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Publisher: マガジン・ファイブ (Magazine Five), 2004

ISBN: 4-434-05275-6

 

Here is a hardbound book with drawings by Oki Shoji (born in 1922, currently 94 years of age).

Some in black-and-white, some in colours, this is a fine collection of sometimes crude pictures.

Muku, Maeda, Oki and Kasama: 愛縄物語 (Ai-nawa Stories)

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Ai-nawa Stories: 愛縄物語            

This softcover book, printed on rather cheap paper, collects the work of four artists under the headline ”Eros Painters of the Showa Age”: Muku Youji, Maeda Juan, Oki Shoji and Kasama Shiro. In addition to some classic Muku-drawings, you also get some of his cartoons / manga. Each artist is also presented with a short biography and a portrait.

ISBN-13: 978-4434076688

Publisher: マガジン・ファイブ, 2006

Muku Youji (Ed.): Nawa to Onna

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Muku Youji (Ed.): Nawa to Onna MukuYoujiEd1 MukuYoujiEd2 MukuYoujiEd3 Muku Youji (Ed.): Nawa to Onna / 縄と女 (an SM illustrators album) Tokyo: Kitan-kai 1970 Slightly off topic for this blog, this is an anthology of the work of several illustrators. In his book ”The Beauty of Kinbaku” (p. 53), Master K list the contributors as including Obinata, Kitoh Akira, Yamada, Oki Shoji and Ishizuka Yoshiyuki.