Who Is Hajime Sorayama?
Hajime Sorayama was born the eldest son of a carpenter in 1947 in Ehime P= refecture, Japan. At school, he scored low in physical education and mus= ic, but received top grades in art. When he was in high school, he did p= en-and-ink drawings of airplanes and ships. Sorayama entered Shikoku Gak= uin University in 1965. After the publication of PINK JOURNAL in 1967, h= e left the school and entered the Chuo Art School. Graduating in 1969, h= e was hired at an advertising firm as a comprehensive illustrator. He be= gan working independently as a free-lance illustrator in 1972. Sorayama = drew his first robot in 1978. His books and videos include SEXY ROBOTS (Genko-Sha, 1983), PINUP (Graphi= c-Sha, 1985), ILLUSTRATION VIDEO (Fuji Television, 1985), VENUS ODYSSEY (= Tokuma Communications, 1985), POSTER BOOK SEXY ROBOT (Taco, Berlin, 1989)= , HAJIME SORAYAMA (Taco, 1989), and HYPER ILLUSTRATIONS (Bijutsu Shuppan-= Sha, 1989), THE GYNOIDS (Treville 1993) NAGA (Sakuhin-sha 1997), TORTURE = (S
