Career

Early works, like "Sunagawa Number.5" (1955) and "The Base," (1957) critiqued the United States. military presence in Japan. The protests represented in "Sunagawa Number.5" were a response to the plane crash at Tachikawa Airfield in 1953 that killed 129 people. His later art took a more surrealist turn, with common motifs being high school girls and methods of locomotion, including planes and trains.