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In 2008 into 2009, Sorayama was approached by the Opera Gallery to hold a New York City art show. It was attended by collectors and fans from around the world. Intrigued by the Western nostalgia of by-gone eras and including Sorayama’s own fundamental basis in Edo period art of Japan, and always ready for challenges to his technique and imagination, he produced a series of romantic and sexy figures in the mid to late 1980¹s (post WWII to Reagan period) and some reminiscent of Hokusai’s Edo works dating back centuries under Japan’s Shogun Tokugawa. Opera Gallery became the first venue ever to showcase Sorayama’s style on over-sized canvas.
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