Hajime Sorayama
Hajime Sorayama (空山 基, Sorayama Hajime, born February 22, 1947) is a Tokyo-basedJapanese painter, best known for his precisely detailed, erotic, hand-painted and airbrushed portrayals of women and of feminine, biomechanoid robots, and his design work on the original Sony AIBO robotic "pet". He describes his highly detailed style as "superrealism", which he says "deals with the technical issue of how close one can get to one's object."
Early life
Hajime Sorayama was born in 1947 in Imabari, Ehime prefecture, Japan.
He received his basic education at Imabari Kita High School.
In High School he starts drawing Playboy inspired pin-ups.
1965, influenced by Makoto Oda's book,
Nandemo Mite yaro ("I'll go and see everything")
about his travels through Europe and Asia,
he took interest in Greece and decided to enter Christian Shikoku Gakuin University,
to study English literature and Ancient Greek.
He could not learn Greek, because the teacher had left, shortly before he arrived. When the school magazine he founded, Pink Journal, was heavily criticized by teachers as well as students, he left and transferred to Tokyo's Chuo Art School in 1967, to study art.
