The 2nd edition of our magazine, Hanga Shoshi, is dedicated to ISOZAKI Arata and YAMANA Ayao. After he died, retrospective exhibitions have nearly exclusively focused on YAMANA’s refined work for Shiseido, but we wanted to draw attention to his illustrations that were published in journals such as Joshi, Sunday Everyday, Jewel or Ryoki that are ripe with a cool and clear eroticism. His line drawings for the novels of EDOGAWA Ranpo, YAMADA Futaro, or KAYAMA Shigeru prove his extraordinary sense of balance, working only with a pen. In an age where graphic design and illustration is dominated by the usage of computers, a talent such as Yamana’s will probably not emerge again any time soon.