Takato Yamamoto has created a unique style he calls “Heisei Aestheticism”: elegant, elaborately detailed illustrations of death obsessed young people, beautiful vampires, and the macabre, filled with blood, skulls, cadavers, etc.

From the publisher:

A major figure in contemporary ero guro, Takato Yamamoto unveils a world of troubling beauty, where classic Japanese elegance blends with a dark and decadent sensuality.

His meticulous compositions, inspired by ukiyo-e as much as by European symbolism, give birth to visions suspended between refinement, eroticism, and death.

With The Art of Takato Yamamoto, dive into a unique aesthetic, as fascinating as it is unsettling.

This is a package of three items:

A 32-page 7.5x10 inch (19x25cm) full color art book

A 32-page 4.25x5.6 inch bilingual (French-English) monochrome booklet containing a Biography, an Interview, an Index to the images in the artbook, and an "Annex" of extra illustrations

A 19.7x27.5 inch (50x70cm) poster

First edition of 1000 copies