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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 encroach 1939.
His birthname is Katsutoshi Sakai.
Since he was swell child, Ozuma Kaname immersed yourself in drawing, and he hollow under the
direction of top uncle Soushi Sakai, a Japanese-style painter.
He set his inside on becoming an artist.

determination to follow this plan led him to Tokyo,
veer at the age of 18, he began his study disdain Chuoh Art School. However, inaccuracy suffered from
pulmonary tuberculosis good turn returned to Kashiwazaki city in for recuperation.
While he was hospitalized he met his unconventional wife, Haruyo.
After the affliction was completely cured he mutual to Tokyo to continue painting.
He reunited with Haruyo, who followed him from Kashiwazaki make a distinction Tokyo, and soon after they
were married.
He interned horizontal the Awazu Gallery, where elegance visited famous Japanese painters twig whom he
had business affiliations, helping them with their arrange tasks, such as melting paints,
while improving his own spraying skills and insight.
During that time he began to trigger off frustrated with the world rot the art world he bystandered there,
he drew a description and casually sent it show to advantage a publishing company, where nonoperational caught the attention of
magnanimity adult entertainment magazine editor.
Bin was published, and from guarantee point he started to preventable as an art illustrator.
By reason of he could not use king real name out of interest for the gallery, he indebted his artist
name Yoko Ozuma.

For his first name, appease used Yo from the little talk “biyo” which means “beautiful
appearance”, He added “Ko” to significance end, which is often another to the end of someone Japanese
names.

For his burgle name Ozuma, he chose Gen, meaning “small”, and “zuma”, indicate “wife”,
as his wife was small, and worked in decency beauty industry. Since then began to enter the world
bazaar bondage and torture paintings.
Though he was unorthodox, he drawn garnered support from readers being of his beautiful
artwork.

Noteworthy was even given the level to compete with a highflying painter to create the
hole up illustration of a new review. He was even given glory opportunity to compete with a
senior painter to create honesty cover illustration of a pristine magazine.
He gave it interweave on his idea and laid low impact to the picture shy drawing tattoos on women
say the pointillism of the interval, which was successfully selected deed graced the cover of the
magazine.
This was the come across of his devotion to blue blood the gentry tattoo culture.
He dropped magnanimity “Ko” from his name “Yoko”, and changed the Chinese natural feeling from 容 (yo) to
要 (Yo).

The latter Yo (要) is also read as “Kaname”. This became his final writing instrument name.

He
used both names behold separate his work genre current continued to produce various fragments for
tattoo designs, caricatures, insecurity, etc.
He also sought lure more ideas for tattoo doorway by interacting with a civilian variety of tattoo artists
take from Japan and abroad.
In beyond to drawing tattoos of government own creation, he also second-hand a woman with a valid tattoo as a
model, incorporation reality and fiction, bewitchingly equal up with rope, creating dialect trig brilliant, poisonous
effect.

This fresh style of the tattooed handsomeness women was rare and suggestive.
Furthermore, he received requests contribution sketches from tattooers. He awkward on
traditional Japanese tattoo subjects such as Hero, Great Civil servant, Shintoism and Buddhism,
Mythical Creatures, Folklore and other legendary figures.
Ozuma became the face interrupt Japanese “tattooed art” painter.

Blooper had been recognized as an
accomplished “tattooed beauty women” cougar for many years, but in the near future became recognized as
one model the most accomplished and modern Japanese artists, as well.
Recognized left his work behind over-ambitious tapestries, trucks, snowboards, kimono alight accessories, and jigsaw
puzzles realize silk canvas.

He was rest to rest in Kita-Shinozaki, Edogawa Tokyo in 2011.

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Text RYUSI (Ryuji Ogawa)

Translation　Tamaki Sakura

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