Toshio Saeki (artist)
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Toshio Saeki | |
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| Born | 1945  |
| Died | November 21, 2019 |
| Website | www |
Toshio Saeki (Japanese: 佐伯俊男, Hepburn: Saeki Toshio; 1945 – November 21, 2019) was a Japanese illustrator and painter, known for his erotic works.
Saeki was born in Miyazaki Prefecture and grew up in Osaka from the age of four. Little is known about his family background and the rest of his private life. Saeki deliberately avoided the public eye because, in his opinion, this allowed him to be freer and more provocative in his art.[1]
He studied Western painting in Kyōto from 1960 and then worked as an advertising designer in Osaka from 1963 to 1966. He gave up this job to travel the world. He traveled to Europe, the Soviet Union and the Middle East, among other places.[2] From 1969, Saeki lived in Tokyo. The 1970s also saw an increasingly open approach to sexuality in Japan. However, Toshio Saeki was not active in the sex club scene, despite his genre. He also had no models, but usually painted from his head.[3] He said in an interview:
I don't think I could draw these scenes, if I was really into it myself […] I have to be distanced from it to be able to draw it in this way.
In the late 1980s, Saeki moved away from the Tokyo metropolis and from then on lived and worked in his studio in the rural Chiba Prefecture. Saeki left Japan only once throughout his life.[4] Saeki died on November 21, 2019, but his death was not announced until January 2020.