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Toshio Saeki (1945-2019) was an illustrator who became an icon of the Japanese underground. His work is at the crossroads of the Japanese traditions of shunga (traditional erotic engravings from 17th century) and yōkai (surnatural creatures from Japanese folklore). He also renewed the genre of ero-guro, a Japanese artistic and literary movement which appeared around 1930, combining eroticism, macabre and grotesque elements. « Its monstrous eroticism is all the more powerful because it relies on the power of evocation and unfolds in a very pure drawing. Hergé plunged into the perverse thoughts …