is a Japan

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ese graphic artist, illustrator

Illustrator

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 and painter

Painting

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. His work is characterized by fantastic visuals, capricious and sensuous line flow, flamboyant (and occasionally grotesque

Grotesque

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) eroticism

Erotic art

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, and frequent use of collage

Collage

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 and bright colors. Uno was prominently involved with the Japanese underground art of the 1960s–1970s, and is particularly notable for his collaborations with Shuji Terayama

Shuji Terayama

was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. According to many critics and supporters, he was one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan. He was born December 10, 1935, the only son of Hachiro and Hatsu Terayama in...

 and his experimental theater Tenjo Sajiki

Tenjo Sajiki

was a Japanese independent theater troupe led by Shūji Terayama and active between 1967 and 1983 . A major phenomenon on the Japanese underground scene, the group has produced a number of stage works marked by experimentalism, folklore influences, social provocation, grotesque eroticism and the...

.

Name

• The pseudonym
  Pseudonym
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   Aquirax has been chosen as an exotic French
  French language
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  -style spelling of his Japanese
  Japanese language
  is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
  
   name Akira. He has also mentioned that he has chosen "Aquirax" so he was able to write a longer signature on his works.

Works

• Aquirax Uno posters 1959‐1975, published by Blues Interactions, Inc (2003), ISBN 4860200713.
• Cover art for Buck-Tick
  Buck-Tick
  Buck-Tick is a rock band formed in 1983 in Fujioka, Japan. The band has consisted of Atsushi Sakurai , Hisashi Imai , Hidehiko Hoshino , Yutaka Higuchi and Toll Yagami for the majority of its existence...
  
  's Razzle Dazzle, Ariola Japan
  Ariola Japan
  , is a Japanese record label precedently part of BMG Japan and now subsidiary of Sony Music Japan. It is home to both former BMG Japan artists and new artists, including Buck-Tick, The Cro-Magnons, Deen, GO!GO!7188, Kenichi Asai, AZU, Takako Matsu, Misia, Kazumasa Oda, Seamo, Shikao Suga, Sukima...
  
  , (2010)