Kuniyoshi Kaneko

Kuniyoshi Kaneko (金子 國義, Kaneko Kuniyoshi; 23 July 1936 – 17 March 2015)^[1] was a Japanese painter, illustrator and photographer perhaps best known for his paintings and drawings of women in bondage such as his illustrations for a Japanese edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.^[2] The musical performer Momus released a song about his work entitled "The Cabinet of Kuniyoshi Kaneko".^[3][4] In 1991 Kaneko provided the artwork for Alice: An Interactive Museum click-and-go adventure game. In 1992 his work was included in Adam and Eve an exhibition at the Saitama Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan (Museum of Modern Art) in Saitama.^[5] Kuniyoshi died of heart failure on March 17, 2015 at the age of 78.^[6]