Hajime Sorayama
| Hajime Sorayama | |
|---|---|
| Born |
22 February 1947 Imabari, Ehime prefecture, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Education | Chuo Art School |
| Known for | Erotic illustration/Robot art |
Hajime Sorayama (空山 基 Sorayama Hajime?, born February 22, 1947) is a Japaneseillustrator known for his precisely detailed, erotic, and portrayals of women 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."
Modern English-language editions of Soryama's art books give his name in Hajime Sorayama order, though some older releases used his native Japanese name order, Sorayama Hajime in Western World.
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.
Sorayama graduated in 1968 at the age of 21, and gained an appointment in an advertising agency. He became a freelance illustrator in 1972. In 1978, he drew his first robot. Of this subject, he wrote: "A friend of mine, the designer Hara Koichi, wanted to use C-3PO from Star Wars for a Suntory poster presentation. But time was short and there were problems with copyright fee[s], so I was asked to come up with something."
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