LOVE DOLL Kishin Shinoyama Shougakukan/2017/Japanese/21 x 1.2 x 28 cm The latest “love dolls” created by Orient Kogyo, whose staff includes graduates of the graduate school of Tokyo University of the Arts, have achieved a unique evolution with the world's highest level of technology and artistry, and are highly acclaimed for their quality. The quality of these dolls is highly acclaimed. Kishin Shinoyama, who encountered the world's rare contemporary artwork “love dolls,” has created an unprecedented “world of love dolls” by looking at and capturing them from a unique perspective. Dreams and fantasies. Dolls and humans. Life and death. This is a work that questions the “human present,” quietly disturbing the viewer's sensibilities. In addition, Yuji Yamashita, an art historian who is well versed in “love dolls,” explains in detail the significance of “Zokei” and “love dolls” in Japanese art history in his commentary “Japanese Art History of ‘Hitogata’”. The love dolls photographed by Kishin Shinoyama are presented to the reader in this collection of photographs as images that can be mistaken for truly flesh-and-blood women. Many readers will no doubt marvel at how an “industrial product” has attained a quality that surpasses that of a “work of art.”