Tokujiro Sakairi was a famous illustrator in the 50s and 60s. Nowadays photos of young girls appear on the front pages of many major magazines, for example "Shounen Sunday" and "Shounen Magazine". Since World War II, various adventure stories (comic strips) were serialized in young peoples magazines and the most popular characters appeared on the front pages so that they become more appealing to their young audience. Middle-aged readers may be able to recall some of the titles from that time, such as "Getsumenkichi no mirai" and "Uchuujin sinryaku". At that time, Tokujiro Sakairi played an active and important role in this type of development and he studied other illustrations by Shigeru Komatsuzaki (another famous illustrator) so that he could learn more. He managed to assemble various other cut outs from different stories so that he could use them for his own purpose. In 1970, Sakairi left Tokyo and went to Kouraikyou so that se could apart from the commercialized of the illustration field. He then started to create illustrations for books in education and at the same time, began to develop and establish his own personal style of creativity. As a young man, he had been influenced by Surrealism, especially by the likes of Dari and Maxelnst, and it seemed strange because the realistic touches of Surrealism were quite the opposite to Impressionism and Abstraction (his other forms of work). Due to the fact that his life had been affected by Surrealism, he used this experience to develop another form of art; "Koubou". In this work, he could combine both his experience with Surrealism and the Japanese culture,ﾊ to establish his own un-mistakeable style for which he would became famous. Later on, against Super realism, his touches have become slightly more milder and less thought provoking. He attempted to use various other types of subject matter such as still life and landscaping, and more recently his creative scope has covered a wider area with greater use of the imagination. In lead him into attempting to create other, newer forms such as carving masks and cut out pictures, known as "Nou" and "Genji story" recently.