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Born in Tokyo in 1969, Yamaguchi Akira has established a reputation as an innovative artist who offers fresh and sometimes startling views of familiar figures and landscapes, or cityscapes. He combines precise almost mechanical modern detail with the birds-eye perspective of traditional Japanese painting. His works have been exhibited in museums as well as used on CD and book jacket designs in Japan.
The cover for this edition features a detail from Yamaguchi’s work "New Sights of Kyoto: Kannon of Children and Childbirth on the Shiga Road”
Some of Yamaguchi’s works (including this painting) can be viewed online at http://www.mizuma-one.com/_english/artists/yamaguch_akira/selected_works/.