Muku Yoji (椋陽児)

Muku Yoji (椋陽児), 1928–2001, was a Japanese illustrator.

1928–2001

Era: 1950s

ILLUSTRATOR · WRITER

Japanese SM illustrator, writer and editor whose work helped define the visual face of postwar kinbaku publishing. Nawapedia says Muku joined Uramado's editorial department in 1963 while Chimuo Nureki was editor-in-chief, drew illustrations and comics for Jitsuwa Zasshi, and later wrote stories for SM Select. Kinbaku Today describes him as one of the key figures in kinbaku history, notes his editorial role at Uramado, and says his work often drew directly from photographs of Nureki's rope scenes. documented here as a bounded Uramado / Nureki publication-artist bridge, not as a broad manga or photo-book fan-out entry.

School: Independent

Collaborators: Nureki Chimuo.

Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Uramado.