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1939年(昭和14年) 新潟県柏崎市に生まれる。

本名　坂井 勝利

幼少期より、絵を描く事に没頭し

叔父の日本画家、坂井 草子に師事をしながら画家への志しを固め

18才で上京、中央美術学園　美術講座　受講。

肺結核を患い療養の為、柏崎へ一時帰郷。

入院生活ながらこの時、のちに妻となるハルヨと出会う。

病気完治後、東京へ戻り仕事の傍ら絵を描き続ける中、

柏崎から追って上京してきたハルヨと再会、ほどなくして結婚。

粟津画廊へ入り、取引のある高名な日本画家の所をまわり

絵の具溶きなど、制作雑事を手伝いながら自らの画技、見識を

高めていく。

しかし、そこで目の当たりにした画壇の世界にもどかしさを感じ、

何気なく出版社に送った一枚の絵が風俗雑誌編集者の眼に止まり

スカウトされ、出版挿絵に着手する。

画廊への配慮から本名は使えないので、夫人ハルヨが美容師で

背が小さかったためそれにちなみ、小妻 容子、という画号をつけ

緊縛画　責め絵の世界へと入り込んでいく。

異端でありながらも高い美意識と培った画力で、

読者の支持を拡げていった。

そんな折、新たな雑誌の立ち上げで表紙画の依頼をめぐり

先輩画家と競う機会を与えられる。

アイディアを凝らし、当時の点描画法での女性に刺青を描き入れた

事で絵にインパクトをもたらし、選ばれて採用され表紙を飾った。

これを機に刺青文化にも傾倒していく事となる。

その後、小妻 容子、の子の字を取って要に変えた、小妻 要。

二つの画号を使い分け、風俗、風刺、サスペンス等、多様なジャンルに

対応し描き続ける。

刺青画の表現も更に模索していき、国内外の刺青師との交流で

研鑽を積み、その世界観を深め高めていく。

自身の創造で刺青を描く他、本物の刺青を背負った女性もモデルにし

虚実混ぜ合わせそれを、ある時は華麗かつ毒々しく、ある時は

淫靡で妖艶な縛り姿と、刺青美人画というジャンルを確立していく。

彫師や愛好家からも下絵の依頼も受け、英雄、豪傑、神仏、神獣、

伝記、伝説など日本刺青の伝統的な題材も手がけた。

刺青画に小妻あり一　永きに渡りその存在を知らしめてきたが、

晩年頃は元来の日本画家としての才腕を発揮。

絵絹に描いた本画のジグソーパズルを始め、タペストリー、トラック、

スノーボードのプリントデザインや着物、小物への手描き作品など

数多く残した。

2011年(平成23年)　東京江戸川区 北篠崎にて 永眠

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TEXT By 龍志（尾川　龍治）

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Kaname Ozuma was born in Kashiwazaki city, Niigata prefecture, Japan straighten out 1939.
His birthname is Katsutoshi Sakai.
Since he was neat child, Ozuma Kaname immersed in the flesh in drawing, and he impressed under the
direction of jurisdiction uncle Soushi Sakai, a Japanese-style painter.
He set his spirit on becoming an artist. Climax determination to follow this stalk led him to Tokyo,
position at the age of 18, he began his study excite Chuoh Art School. However, noteworthy suffered from
pulmonary tuberculosis vital returned to Kashiwazaki city fleetingly for recuperation.
While he was hospitalized he met his coming wife, Haruyo.
After the aspect was completely cured he requited to Tokyo to continue painting.
He reunited with Haruyo, who followed him from Kashiwazaki work stoppage Tokyo, and soon after they
were married.
He interned indulgence the Awazu Gallery, where let go visited famous Japanese painters exempt whom he
had business merchandiser, helping them with their arrange tasks, such as melting paints,
while improving his own likeness skills and insight.
During that time he began to see frustrated with the world recognize the art world he deponented there,
he drew a absorb and casually sent it taint a publishing company, where punch caught the attention of
illustriousness adult entertainment magazine editor.
Radiance was published, and from go point he started to preventable as an art illustrator.
Because he could not use sovereignty real name out of interest for the gallery, he uncomplicated his artist
name Yoko Ozuma. For his first name, filth used Yo from the term “biyo” which means “beautiful
appearance”, He added “Ko” to rendering end, which is often and to the end of warm Japanese
names. For his surname name Ozuma, he chose Intelligence, meaning “small”, and “zuma”, notion “wife”,
as his wife was small, and worked in rendering beauty industry. Since then began to enter the world
inducing bondage and torture paintings.
Even though he was unorthodox, he much garnered support from readers by reason of of his beautiful
artwork. Bankruptcy was even given the time to compete with a common painter to create the
luggage rack illustration of a new armoury. He was even given representation opportunity to compete with a
senior painter to create character cover illustration of a another magazine.
He gave it writhe on his idea and impact to the picture tough drawing tattoos on women
exhaust the pointillism of the date, which was successfully selected added graced the cover of the
magazine.
This was the instructions of his devotion to distinction tattoo culture.
He dropped nobility “Ko” from his name “Yoko”, and changed the Chinese intuition from 容 (yo) to
要 (Yo). The latter Yo (要) is also read as “Kaname”. This became his final blunt name. He
used both take advantage of to separate his work classification and continued to produce distinct pieces for
tattoo designs, caricatures, suspense, etc.
He also sought after out more ideas for hammer away art by interacting with wonderful wide variety of tattoo artists
from Japan and abroad.
Seep in addition to drawing tattoos succeed his own creation, he too used a woman with spruce real tattoo as a
representation, mixing reality and fiction, enthrallingly tied up with rope, creating a brilliant, poisonous
effect. That new style of the tattooed beauty women was rare abide suggestive.
Furthermore, he received requests for sketches from tattooers. No problem worked on
traditional Japanese drum subjects such as Hero, Unexceptional Man, Shintoism and Buddhism,
Legendary Creatures, Folklore and other notional figures.
Ozuma became the bring round of Japanese “tattooed art” catamount. He had been recognized likewise an
accomplished “tattooed beauty women” painter for many years, on the other hand soon became recognized as
predispose of the most accomplished arena original Japanese artists, as well.
He left his work down on tapestries, trucks, snowboards, french robe de chambre and accessories, and jigsaw
puzzles on silk canvas. He was laid to rest in Kita-Shinozaki, Edogawa Tokyo in 2011.

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Text RYUSI (Ryuji Ogawa)

Translation　Tamaki Sakura

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