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Ozuma Yoko

Born 1939 in Niigata Prefecture, Japan
He used also the alias Ozuma Kaname. He had taken lessons in elementary painting from his uncle, a Japanese-style painter, since his boyhood. In 1957 he went up to Tokyo, and continued to train himself under an art dealer.
He became a popular illustrator soon after he did his first contribution to Japanese BDSM mags in the beginning of the 1970's. The tattoo stuff was especially in great demand. As a contributor to BDSM mags, at present he provides only the monthly frontispiece of "SM Hishousetsu"; but in recent years he has published several art books in a deluxe edition as a Japanese-style painter of established reputation.
By the illustrations from the three Jito volumes his work is also in Europe be famous.
The Book "Jonen Garou", what you can see here, is an artbook of the following artists: Ozuma Yoko, Maeda Juan, Kato Kahoru, Shouji Oki, and Muku Youji.