{"title":"Toshio Saeki","description":"\u003ch2\u003eToshio Saeki (佐伯俊男), 1945–2019\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToshio Saeki was a Japanese illustrator and painter born in Miyazaki Prefecture in 1945, who spent his formative years in Osaka before settling in Tokyo in 1969. He worked in deliberate remove from public life, a distance he regarded as essential to the freedom and provocation of his imagery. He died on November 21, 2019; his death was not made public until January 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaeki's work draws on the formal traditions of Shunga and Yōkai while absorbing influences from Western art — most notably the work of Tomi Ungerer — to produce imagery that is sexually explicit, violent, and rigorously composed. He is a central figure of the modern Ero Guro movement. His debut publication, Saeki Toshio Gashū (佐伯俊男画集), appeared in 1970, the same year sketches were published in the men's magazine Heibon Punch (平凡パンチ). His reach extended into music and film: a drawing by Saeki appears on the cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1972 album \u003cem\u003eSome Time in New York City\u003c\/em\u003e, and Michel Boschet's 1979 animated short \u003cem\u003eDemain la petite fille sera en retard à l'école\u003c\/em\u003e — based on Saeki's drawings — won the César Award for Best Animated Short Film. More recently, a Saeki image was used for the cover of Geordie Greep's 2024 album \u003cem\u003eThe New Sound\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection gathers books and artist publications related to Saeki's work, selected in keeping with Lokator100's focus on carefully documented \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/artbooks-artist-publications\"\u003eArtbooks \u0026amp; Artist Publications\u003c\/a\u003e. Each item is described with bibliographic precision. Collectors interested in the French publishing tradition adjacent to underground and erotic illustration may also find relevant titles in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/editions-cornelius\"\u003eÉditions Cornélius\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"reve-ecarlate-toshio-saeki","title":"Rêve écarlate — Toshio Saeki","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRêve écarlate — Toshio Saeki's Ero Guro Anthology\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRêve écarlate\u003c\/em\u003e (Scarlet Dream) is the first volume of a chronological, annotated anthology of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/toshio-saeki\"\u003eToshio Saeki\u003c\/a\u003e's illustration work — the first publication of this scope for the artist in European publishing. Released in February 2016 as a second edition by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/editions-cornelius\"\u003eÉditions Cornélius\u003c\/a\u003e under their Collection Pierre imprint, the book was produced directly from Saeki's originals and distributed as far as Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Work\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaeki's practice belongs to the tradition of \u003cem\u003eero guro\u003c\/em\u003e — a mode of image-making rooted in classical Japanese drawing, encompassing the erotic and the grotesque in equal measure. Where earlier artists worked within the conventions of Shunga and Yōkai visual culture, Saeki recast those traditions through the specific anxieties of the 1970s generation: the contradictions of modernisation, the residue of political disillusionment, and a sustained engagement with censorship as a formal constraint. In Japan, the prohibition on depicting genitalia redirected his imagery toward the oneiric and the absurd, producing a body of work that operates simultaneously within and against its own prohibitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis line has frequently been compared by European readers to the \u003cem\u003eligne claire\u003c\/em\u003e associated with Hergé and Joost Swarte — a comparison that points less to stylistic derivation than to a shared economy of mark-making that reads as foreign to both Japanese and Western audiences. The effect is one of deliberate estrangement: a clarity of execution that makes the imagery more, not less, unsettling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe colorisation in \u003cem\u003eRêve écarlate\u003c\/em\u003e was carried out in close collaboration with Saeki himself, restoring original colours with a distinctly pop sensibility. The book includes a trilingual preface in French, English, and Japanese. It is part of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/artbooks-artist-publications\"\u003eLokator100's art books and artist publications\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCultural Reach\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaeki's work has reached well beyond specialist circles. His drawing appeared on the cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1972 album \u003cem\u003eSome Time in New York City\u003c\/em\u003e. The 1979 animated short \u003cem\u003eDemain la petite fille sera en retard à l'école\u003c\/em\u003e, based on his drawings and directed by Michel Boschet, won the César award for Best Animated Short Film. More recently, one of his images was used as the cover of Geordie Greep's 2024 album \u003cem\u003eThe New Sound\u003c\/em\u003e. His work has been shown at Art Basel Hong Kong, among other international venues. Publications of this kind remain rare in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Éditions Cornélius","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54281291268442,"sku":"9782360811069","price":36.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/r-ve-carlate-toshio-saeki-front-cover.jpg?v=1781090078"}],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/toshio-saeki.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}