Akira Yamaguchi

Akira Yamaguchi (山口 晃, Yamaguchi Akira, born 1969 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary artist.

Born in Tokyo, he grew up in the city of Kiryū, Gunma Prefecture.

[1] Yamaguchi designed the cover art for the album V by the nu-jazz music duo United Future Organization and illustrated the book Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene.

He is represented by Mizuma Art Gallery [ja].

Yamaguchi's painting style combines contemporary oil painting techniques with the traditional Japanese composition style known as Yamato-e.[5] He has also produced a number of drawings and ukiyo-e.[6]